interestedness

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I thank you my dear Aunt for your kind Epistles of April 9th & Nov'r 10th, the kind interestedness you yet continue to take in my concerns merits the warmest returns of Gratitude.

From Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 by Winslow, Anna Green

Now that Roxalanne came to entreat him to do that which already he saw himself forced to do, he turned his attention to the profit that he might derive from her interestedness on my behalf.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

One of the best ways to insure the attainment of a higher plane of mental efficiency is to assume an attitude of interestedness.

From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Kitson, Harry D.

These are attachments that depend on sentiment rather than on interest, and which are as much purer and holier, as virtuous sentiment is purer and holier than worldly interestedness.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

I might give them what degree of credit I pleased; and take them with abatement for Mr. Solmes's interestedness, if I thought fit.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel