What is "unmercenary"

Usage examples of "unmercenary".

The next afternoon Ravenel, while polishing a ragged line of a new sonnet, reclined by the window overlooking the besieged garden of the unmercenary baron.

A pearl of an agent - totally unmercenary - polyglot - a natural philosopher with innumerable contacts among the learned abroad - a man with a profession that introduced him everywhere - a physician is welcome everywhere - and a Catholic, which is such a recommendation in the greater part of the world.

I have to woo a reserved woman, persuade an honest woman, make offers to an unmercenary woman, serve a prudent woman?

But if you know you have a wife who is reserved, honest, unmercenary, and prudent, what else do you need to know?