Pronounced: em-pie-REE-uhl, adj
Notes: The pronunciation reminds me of sidereal
Yesterday’s word
The word disaffect means “to alienate the support of loyalty of someone”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
As I noted, I was exactly on the fence as to whether or not to use our word. I had a pretty good idea of the meaning, but I was not (and still am not) sure how well the word was known. I decided to go ahead and use it. Our word came from the Latin words dis- (away) and affectare (to aim at; to strive after) – the latter is made up of ad- (to) and facere (to do).
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