ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
† 1. Unbiassed, impartial. Obs.
a. 1646. J. Gregory, Posthuma, Episc. Puerorum (1649), 107. By this uninterested disguis, the more to justifie the Celebrations.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 49. Nor do I think that any uninterested casuist will deny [etc.].
† 2. Free from motives of personal interest; disinterested. Obs.
1661. (title) A Relation of the business concerning Bedford Levell, by a person uninterested.
1704. N. N., trans. Boccalinis Advts. fr. Parnass., III. 191. What think you of uninterested Men, who value the Publick Good beyond their own private Interest?
1767. Cowper, Lett., Wks. 1837, XV. 17. You know me to be an uninterested person.
3. Unconcerned, indifferent.
1771. Ann. Reg., II. 253/1. He is no cold, uninterested, and uninteresting advocate for the cause he espouses.
1774. Trinket, 54. In this amiable society can my heart be uninterested?
1823. Byron, Juan, X. lxxiii. In the same quaint, Uninterested tone.
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, lvii. An almost silent but not uninterested spectator.
Hence Uninterestedly adv., -ness.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 55. As to that Uninterestedness so pretended to by them.
1891. H. Herman, His Angel, i. 24. Anything the matter, daddie? she asked half uninterestedly. v. 108. He looked upon the street, and the little crowds of passers-by, listlessly uninterestedly.