disaffect

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Gallatin warned him against the attempt that would be made to disaffect that district because none of the representatives whose seats had been vacated were residents of it.

From Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII by Stevens, John Austin

Must not the torrent of invective and abuse, almost universally poured upon this people, tend to disaffect and indispose them to civil association! 

From A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by Hoyland, John

The manner in which children's tastes are disregarded, their feelings ignored, and their instincts violated is enough to disaffect one with childhood.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various

And any and every discrimination against any class, whether on account of color, race, nativity, sex, property, culture, can but embitter and disaffect that class, and thereby endanger the safety of the whole people.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

And these first glimpses of the happy lives of others seemed to disaffect me more than ever with my own.

From Richard Vandermarck by Harris, Miriam Coles