Meaning of disinvolve | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
   transitive
2. To terminate the involvement of.

Examples

“And for that second sense⟳, it is indeed disinvolved of those former Difficulties”

“And for thee Creation universal calls aloud To disinvolve the moral world, and give⟳ To nature's renovation brighter charms.”

“This furnishes us with a multitude of cognitions, which. although they are not more than elucidations or explanations of that which had already been though in our conceptions (although in a confused manner) still, at least according to the form⟳, are prized as new introspetions, notwithstanding that so far as respects their matter⟳ or content, they do not extend⟳ the conceptions which we have⟳, but only disinvolve them .”

“Constable and Turner were needed to reassert the potentialities of natural colour and to disinvolve the miracle of light⟳ from the good taste⟳ of academic tone.”

“Given a variety of urgent and vital global problems requiring attention and co-operation of the super-powers and the world communitiy in their solution, can the super-powers take⟳ a decision to disinvolve themselves from the Viet-Nam-Indo-China tangle and to use⟳ all their influence⟳ with the local parties concerned to facilitate such disinvolvement?”

“Has the author processed his subject in such a way as to exclude⟳, to pacify, to disinvolve the reader?”

“I was never physically attracted to Al, and I was comfortable with him for two reasons: I genuinely respected his intelligence and wanted to learn⟳ fro him and discuss⟳ music and literature and philosophy with him; also I knew it would take⟳ him weeks to make⟳ any physical overtures, and it would, at such a time in the future, be simple to disinvolve myself. As yet, we haven't even held hands!”

“Disinvolve yourself, if you can come⟳ to it, disinvolve, dissociate, hold⟳ a watching brief.”

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