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uninˈdifferent, a.
[un-1 7.]
†1. Unequal, unfavourable. Obs.—1
1565Golding Cæsar 209 When he saw howe thencounter was in an vnindifferent place..[he] sent to..his Lieuetenant.
2. a. Of persons: Not impartial or fair-minded; prejudiced. Now arch.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xli. 3 The miserable man whom cruel and unindifferent persons surmise to bee forlorne. 1611A. Munday Brief Chron. A 8, This vertuous..man, knowing Death to be an vnindifferent Executor. 1673O. Walker Educ. 204 Unindifferent are those who are pre⁓ingaged. 1852Fraser's Mag. March 246/1 He may consequently be supposed, to use the language of the law, ‘to stand unindifferent as he stands unsworn’.
†b. Of actions, etc.: Lacking in impartiality or fairness. Obs.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxxix. 231 Such vnindifferent dealing shall alwayes be taken for theft before God. 1600Tate in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 7 It may justly be thought unindifferent to nominate his own country for the place. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. 378 Stomacking..the vnindifferent sharing of the Nordaine Bootie.
3. Not indifferent; concerned, interested.
1813Lamb Play-ho Mem. Wks. 1908 I. 202 Those honest, hearty, well-pleased, unindifferent mortals above.
So uninˈdifferently adv., unfairly.
1608Hieron Defence ii. 126 He..maie easely perceyve..how unindifferently and unequally he sorteth us and Cochlæus togither. |