Both Uses of
disinterested
in
Jane Eyre
- If you think so, you must have a strange opinion of me; you must regard me as a plotting profligate — a base and low rake who has been simulating disinterested love in order to draw you into a snare deliberately laid, and strip you of honour and rob you of self— respect.†
Chpt 27 *
- Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant, and courageous; very gentle, and very heroic: cease to mistrust yourself — I can trust you unreservedly.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(disinterested) unaffected by self-interest