单词 | indifferency |
释义 | indifferencyn. The quality of being indifferent. I. Of a person or thing, in relation to two or more persons, things, courses, etc. 1. Absence of bias, prejudice, or favour for one side rather than another; impartiality, equity, fairness. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > impartiality indifference1533 indifferencya1535 unpartiality1569 impartiality1611 unpassionateness1611 unpartialness1622 adiaphoracy1623 impartialness1643 even-handedness1820 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xii. sig. P.iiiiv Than shal they fal from indifferency, & maintaine false matters of theyr frendes. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxvijv Not as he, which requireth of you fauor, parcialitie, or bearyng, but egall right, frendly indifferencie, and trew..iustice. a1571 J. Jewel Expos. 2 Thess. 122 in Wks. (1611) Marke then, and witnesse of my indifferencie..that I follow not affection, but deale vprightly. 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 131 How can sinceritie and indifferencie bee expected of them, that are aforehand bound by Oath to the Pope? a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 11 Mark here the equity and indifferency of the Son of God both to Jew and to barbarian. 1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. vi. viii. 504 Where the judge is determined by lot at the time of the trial, and for that turn only..the advantage..is indifferency. 1832 J. Austin Province Jurispr. iii. 78 Few of them will pursue it with this requisite ‘indifferency’ or impartiality. 2. Neutrality of feeling; hence, Absence of active feeling or interest; unconcern, apathy; = indifference n.1 2. Const. to, towards. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [noun] carelessness1561 neutrality1561 indifferency1608 perfunctoriness1626 indifference1660 unconcernment1660 slightiness1662 unconcernedness1675 nonchalance1678 upsitting1680 equilibrium1685 inconcernedness1688 unconcernness1700 unconcern1711 indifferentness1727 Laodiceanism1774 facility1791 insouciance1799 aloofness1817 don't-carishness1821 pococurantism1823 don't-careism1834 don't-care-a-damnativeness1841 nonchalantness1878 casualness1882 disinterest1889 noncurance1904 uncaringness1930 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] mediocrity1588 indifferency1608 indifference1690 indifferentness1727 betweenity1760 commonness1779 passableness1779 flavourlessness1865 middlingness1866 normalcy1893 passable1908 1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iii. v. 56 How long will you halt in this indifferencie? a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 297 That you are in Æquilibrio, in an evennesse, in an indifferency, in an equanimity, whether ye die this night or no. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 176 Their former love of the word hath turned to indifferency. 1689 Howe in H. Rogers Life (1863) ix. 253 In matters of religion Charles II was sufficiently known to be a prince of great indifferency. 1715 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 54 The state of things did not bear an indifferency and neutrality. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 240 I had a perfect indifferency for the whole Sex. 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism i. 7 To rest in a profligate indifferency to religion. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. vii. 269 Even the least semblance of indifferency towards the decisions of law. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > [noun] freedomeOE free will1340 arbitryc1374 advisementa1398 freedom of will?c1400 liberty?c1400 wilfulnessc1460 liberal arbitre?1483 contingencec1530 indifferencya1555 contingency1561 freedom of thought1591 self-willingness1591 volunt1611 voluntariness1643 uncommandedness1646 autexousy1678 volency1686 inconditionality1696 unconditionalitya1714 indifference1728 volition1738 vacancy1754 voluntarity1794 autonomy1803 unconditionalness1843 unconditionedness1854 a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 147 But we can not do so here in England. For our indifferency is taken away by a law. a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 144 The indifferency of the inclination in exercise is bound by Gods decree. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) x. 117 This Indifferency to do or not to do, cannot be the true Notion of Liberty. 1714 Locke's Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxi, in Wks. I. 120 The operative Powers..remaining equally able to operate, or to forbear operating after, as before the Decree of the Will, are in a State, which, if one pleases, may be call'd Indifferency. 4. Of a word: Capability of being applied to different things; neutral or equivocal sense, ambiguity. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] ambiguitya1325 doublenessa1513 ambiguousness1542 double meaning1551 indifferency1596 equivocacy1646 equivocalness1647 ambilogy1656 greyness1663 mealy-mouthedness1697 amphilogy1731 equivocality1735 grey1822 double-edgedness1901 ambivalence1912 ambivalency1912 1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. xii. 497 To make aduantage of the indifferencie of the word. 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 68 The seeming indifferency in the English tongue is necessitated in the Greeke, Δοκιμαζέτω. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. v. 18/2 The Usage..seems to have been Accommodated unto that Indifferency of Signification in the Terms. 1881 J. C. Dolan in Penn. Sch. Jrnl. XXX. 88 Because of this indifferency, the term will has here been used in its most popular sense. a. Absence of advantage for either of two opposing sides. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > neutrality of battlefield indifferency1603 the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > convenience or advantageousness of position > neutrality in point of advantage indifferency1603 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 592 The Rhodians accounted the Turks as good as vanquished, for that they being so many in number, and in a place of such indifferencie, had not yet preuailed. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 848 The Christians fought at great disaduantage, both for the number of men, and indifferencie of the place. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > equal accessibility for all indifferencya1647 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > coming into the presence of or contact with > quality of being accessible > for all indifferencya1647 a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1895) I. ii. 193 An Officer of Armes was ioyned in commissyon to consyder the safety and indifferency of theyre place of meetinge. ΚΠ 1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. 75 Though before it were a Thing of Delight or Indifferency. 1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxi. 149 'Tis a mistake to think, that Men cannot change the displeasingness, or indifferency, that is in actions, into pleasure and desire. II. Of two or more things, in their relation to each other or to a person, etc. 7. Want of difference in nature or character; substantial equality or equivalence. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun] oneness?c1225 identity1545 indifferency1569 selfsameness1577 sameness1581 said1623 homogeneity1625 indistinction1644 indifference1656 sameliness1662 identicalness1677 undistinguishableness1727 indistinguishableness1731 self-identity1866 dittoship1869 identicality1875 indistinguishability1885 sameyness1977 the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] comparison1340 evennessa1398 evenhead?a1400 equipollencec1430 pareil?c1450 equalityc1460 comparation1483 egalness1526 equalness1530 equivalency1535 eveningc1540 equivalencea1542 indifferency1569 owelty1579 coequality1583 mateship1593 equal1596 adequation1605 parity1609 parility1610 matchableness1611 equipollency1623 equiparance1624 egality1628 equipage1633 comparitya1635 omniparity1635 peership1641 exequation1656 equipoise1658 equipotency1658 countervalue1660 adequateness1664 commensurablenessa1676 peerage1681 égalité1794 peerdom1891 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 131 For indifferencye and equalitie of both [buyer and seller]..was ordeyned that [etc.]. a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 5 Tho more have perished by violent Deaths in the Day; yet in natural Dissolutions both Times may hold an Indifferency, at least but contingent Inequality. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 27 If the assertor of the indifferency of truth and falsehood in their own natures, attempt to justify his position. 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) x. 251 You have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism, at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions. 8. a. Absence of difference in respect of consequence, effect, significance, or importance; the fact of its making no difference, or of being of no consequence or importance either way. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > either way indifferency1564 1564 Briefe Exam. *** If the indifferencie of these orders hange vpon the vse: then we must loke wherevnto they are ordeyned. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. iv. 103 The choice is left to our owne discretion, except a principall bond of some higher dutie remoue the indifferencie that such things haue in themselues. 1637 W. Laud Speech in Starr-chamber 54 The Indifferency of the standing of the Holy Table either way. 1692 T. Wagstaffe Vindic. King Charles xiii. 88 Ceremonies..how indifferent soever they are in themselves, when they are once commanded, the indifferency ceases. 1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel II. cxviii. 331 I still believe..in the indifferency of customs, so long as they do not make void the Divine word. b. esp. in phrase of indifferency, that is indifferent, unessential, immaterial, unimportant. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > unessential indifferent1563 of indifferency1564 unfundamental1638 dispensable1649 recrementitious1650 immaterial1698 recrementory1822 unessential1841 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Catech. & Other Pieces (1844) 300 So far is it off that these missal vestures are now things of indifferency. 1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 781 It is a matter of meere indifferency. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 56 Haire long or short, thick or thin, more or lesse, is a matter of indifferency. a1673 T. Horton in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1872) III. Ps. lxiii. 6 As a place of indifferency; that is, there as well as anywhere besides. 1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. iv. 124 It is not a mere matter of speculation, and therefore not a point of indifferency. 1863 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ (ed. 3) 127 Religion was no matter of indifferency to him. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > unessential indifferency1643 non-essential1806 unessential1828 indifferentiala1834 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §26 I would not perish upon a Ceremony, Politick points, or indifferency . View more context for this quotation 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) i. xvi. 36 If it be an Imperfection, it is to be removed... If an Indifferency, it is indifferent whether you remove it or not. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.a1535 |
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