Both Uses
aloof
in
Resistance to Civil Government
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- I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually.†
*aloof = socially distant or uninterested
- I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow men.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)