interestest

Verb

interest (third-person singular simple present interests, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)

1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
   • It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
2. (impersonal, obsolete, often) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
   • Oh, rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory; since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel; valued least, / I am his equal.1840, Philip Massinger, Ford, John, The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford, Harvard University, published 1840, →OCLC, page 112
3. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
   • The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

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