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disacquaintance en · NOUN

Etymology

From dis- + acquaintance.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Loss of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
    • The hotels kept up a specious brilliancy and hospitable outlook, but inside one saw vast empty caverns, and the footrails at the bars gleamed brightly from long disacquaintance with the sole-leather of customers. 1909, O. Henry, Options, Rus in Urbe:
    • Conscience by a long neglect of , and dis-acquaintance with it self 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: