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unˈpartial, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
1.
†a. Impartial, unbiassed, fair. Obs.
Very common from c 1590 to c 1660.
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love B ij b, Then must the Judge sit vnparciall in judgement place. 1593Sidney's Arcadia v. (1922) 201, I wayed the matter..with most un⁓partiall and farthest reach of reason. 1637Heywood Royall King 29 Rendring withall a full satisfactory reason to any unpartiall reader, why they are there. a1662Sanderson in Walton Life (1796) 496 Upon the clear evidence of truth and reason, after a serious and unpartial examination of the grounds.
b. Free from inclination or fondness.
1844Thackeray B. Lyndon xv, The widow was not un⁓partial to me.
2. Unrestricted, ample. rare—1.
1787Bentham Def. Usury xiii. 137 On the most unpartial and extensive signification.
Hence unˈpartialness.
a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxxii. (1640) 127 O ignorant..creatures that we be, let us beg more wisdome and unpartialnesse to our selves at Gods hand. 1661Feltham Resolves ii. xxvii. 237 Even in the unpartialness of War. |