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even-handed, a. (and adv.) (Formerly at even-.)|ˌiːv(ə)nˈhændɪd|
[f. even- + handed a.]
1. Fair, evenly-balanced; free of bias or preference. Cf. even a. 18.
1605Shakes. Macb. i. vii. 10 This euen-handed Iustice Commends th' Ingredience of our poyson'd Challice To our owne lips. 1843Dickens Christmas Carol ii. 65 This is the even-handed dealing of the world!.. There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty. 1879J. A. Froude Cæsar xviii. 305 Pompey's justice was even-handed. 1987N.Y. Times 8 Nov. vii. 1/2 Mr. Miller..created at Bled a sense of evenhanded integrity that reaffirmed PEN as the champion of writers' freedom everywhere.
2. As adv.
1828Scott Fair Maid of Perth in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. v. 153 My ambition of distinction in arms, and my love of strife..do not fight even-handed with my reason.
Hence even-ˈhandedly adv.; even-ˈhandedness n., the quality of being even-handed, impartiality.
1864J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (rev. ed.) II. vii. 52 Had Smith been the only offender, it might have been expected that he would have been gladly sacrificed as an evidence of Elizabeth's evenhandedness. 1889Cent. Dict., Even-handedly. 1949M. Mead Male & Female iv. 81 He [sc. the small boy] has the choice of saying simply, even-handedly, ‘I am a male, and she can never be a male,’ or ‘I am a male, but may be transformed into a female,’ or ‘Aren't the women really males too?’ 1984Listener 10 May 22/3 Instant even-handedness requires me now to deal with Conservative suspicions that the BBC is an extensive nest of leftish agitators. |