fair-mindedadj.

1645 D. North Forest of Varieties iii. 192 My true fair-minded Friend; I beleeve you now in labour to Preach and mend the vitious world.

1754 Truth against Craft 40 To afford to every fair-minded Reader an easy Opportunity of discerning and pointing out any Falacy or Deception.

1874 J. Morley On Compromise 144 An honest and fair-minded man's own instincts.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 38/2 They comprehended that..the results of fairminded compromise were much more satisfactory than the results of litigation.

2008 Vanity Fair June 91/1 The gibe used to be that a liberal was somebody so fair-minded that he wouldn't even take his own side in an argument.

1894 Cheshire Observer (Chester) 10 Mar. 6/1 I do think the friends of Sunday closing..must be all the more prepared to look fair-mindedly, open-mindedly, upon proposals for opening places of innocent and instructive resort.

1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child v. 56 ‘Well, perhaps he was out of Shakespeare, and that would account for it.’ ‘He might have been,’ said Ferdy fair-mindedly, ‘but I shouldn't think he was.’

2012 Lawyer (Nexis) 28 May 24 I think the senior management behaved extremely fair-mindedly.

1833 M. Stuart in tr. Cicero On Immortality of Soul 80 His fair-mindedness, for the most part, can not well be impeached.

1946 P. R. Kibbe Lat. Amer. in Texas xiv. 258 The better newspapers on both sides of the Border have developed objectivity and fair-mindedness in their attitudes.

2007 Independent 13 Jan. (Save & Spend section) 6/1 Congratulating the council on its fair-mindedness.