disacquaintance
English
Etymology
From dis- + acquaintance.
Noun
disacquaintance (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Loss of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- Conscience by a long neglect of , and dis-acquaintance with it self
- 1909, O. Henry, Options, Rus in Urbe:
- 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.
References
- “disacquaintance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.