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partialityn. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French parcialité; Latin partialitas. Etymology: < Middle French parcialité, partialité (also parciaulté (c1500); French partialité ) bias (first half of the 15th cent., 1611 in Cotgrave), faction (second half of the 15th cent.) and its etymon post-classical Latin partialitas party spirit, factiousness (13th cent.), condition of being a part (early 14th cent. in a British source), faction, party (1311) < partialis partial adj. + classical Latin -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare Old Occitan partialitat , Catalan parcialitat (1344), Spanish parcialidad (1383), Italian parzialità (a1406), Portuguese parcialidad (1516). Compare partialness n.With sense 3 perhaps compare Spanish parcialidad tribe, clan (16th cent., with reference to the Americas), glossed by Du Cange as ‘Patria, regio’ (‘country, region’), with a quot. of 1585: nomina, cognomina, parentes,..et regionem, vulgo Parcialidad, et oppidum. I. The quality or character of being partial or biased. 1. society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [noun] > partiality α. 1421 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt (1931) 301 (MED) We haue no cause in tyme comynge to be displesed wiþ hym for any parcyalte þat he shal vse. 1422 IV. 176/1 All maner Wardes..and other casueltees that longeth to the Coroune, whan thei falle, be leeten, sold, and disposed by the said Lordis..indifferently atte the derrest, with oute favour or eny maner parcialtee or fraude. 1461 V. 464/1 Abusion of the Lawes, partialte, riotte..rape, and viciouse lyvyng have been the gyders and leders. ?a1500 in W. Hudson (1906) I. 122 Ȝe schall in the office of Comown Clerk..wyth owtyn parcialte ȝow be haue and gouerne. β. 1455 in A. Clark (1914) 78 (MED) I charge the said lord lovell and Chaunceler that thei..put aparte all maner of affectuouse percialite, favour, seruice, or reward.a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 610 in (1934) ii. 564 (MED) What folwith aftir..Vn-iust promocioun & parcialite.1556 Surv. Calais in (1893) 53 App. ii. 374 Empanell a queste wtoute partialitie or maintenance.1589 in (1898) XVII. 112 Without partyallytie, indyrect dealinge or prejudice to anie partie.1593 R. Hooker Pref. 4 Let not the faith which ye haue in our Lord Iesus Christ, be blemished with partialities.1609 S. Grahame f. 4 Then is he censured to be a man of partialitie and a busie-headed body.1648 F. Nethersole i. 5 Whether Neutrality or Partialitie be more agreeable to the duty of good subjects, in such a Warre.1702 23 Judges in their own case, being suspected of Partiality, are therefore ceptionable.1740 C. Cibber xiv. 260 We had our partialities; our prejudices; our favourites of less merit.1784 E. Allen i. §5. 50 No king, governor or parent would like to be accused of partiality in their respective governments.1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in (1984) 78 The cruelty of the criminal code generally, the atrocities of the Rack, the venality of judges, and their partialities to the rich.1855 T. B. Macaulay IV. xxii. 748 If he is guilty of partiality, he may be called to account by the great inquest of the nation.1878 R. W. Dale (ed. 3) viii. 249 Rebekah's treatment of Jacob may bring home to parents the sin of partiality.1914 E. R. Burroughs ii. 20 The men had by this time surrounded the dead and wounded officers, and without either partiality or compassion proceeded to throw both living and dead over the sides of the vessel.1978 23 Jan. 17/1 Reith..had no..qualms about the partiality of the BBC's coverage of the Strike.1988 A. France 7 My intention is to give a personal view, with all the partiality that that implies.2002 (Nexis) 26 May 16 Scipio demonstrates the partiality and partialness of all fictions, be they philosophical, historical or political.the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > particular liking or partiality the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [noun] > to all > to specific person or thing a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) iv. 2626 (MED) The especial mene, the parcialite Sholde of al merci be descripsioun Rebounde to women. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo (1586) iii. 120 b If he shall euer vnderstand this your partialitie, I doubt me..that he will beshrew me for it. 1651 T. Hobbes xxx. 332 The consequences of this partiality towards the great, proceed in this manner. 1669 R. Montague in (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 425 I have no partiality in the world towards him. 1726 J. Swift I. ii. vii. 123 I have always born that laudable Partiality to my own Country,..[and] I would hide the Frailties and Deformities of my Political Mother. 1759 D. Hume (1812) V. xlii. 330 Another favourite who at this time received some marks of her partiality. 1811 J. Austen I. x. 114 Colonel Brandon's partiality for Marianne, which had so early been discovered by his friends, now first became perceptible to Elinor, when it ceased to be noticed by them. View more context for this quotation 1833 H. Martineau ii. iv. 66 Miss Storey had always more partiality for our people. 1871 W. H. Ainsworth ii. x Henry's partiality for St. John's Chapel had prevented it from being desecrated by the Vicar-General. a1911 D. G. Phillips (1917) I. iii. 33 Mrs. Warham had latterly grown jealous..of her husband's partiality for Susan. 1959 at David Lloyd-George His hostility to France and partiality to Germany became increasingly marked. 1984 N. Annan (1986) i. 33 He developed a partiality for dried figs and carried a box of them about with him. 2003 (Nexis) 9 Mar. 51 The one thing working against Brody is the Academy's historical partiality toward flamboyant performances. †2. society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism 1520 iii. f. 25v/1 Hircanus after the decesse of his moder succeded in the kyngdom, in the which he had lytel prosperyte for parcyalte of the people. 1583 T. Stocker tr. iv. 38 There was greate partialitie betweene the Citie of Groenyng, and the Countrey men, by reason of certain Rightes and Priuiledges. 1609 S. Daniel (rev. ed.) iv. v. 88 His State being turbulent, Factious, and full of partialitie. 1707 Duke of Marlborough Let. 6 June in H. L. Snyder (1975) II. 797 You will find that 89 will be on his side, for partiality will show itself when party is concerned. 1752 D. Hume (1777) I. 427 What domestic confusion, jealousy, partiality, revenge, heart-burnings, must tear those cities. 1821 J. Bentham iv. i. 223 A cause so circumstanced as to awake..the passions and partialities congenial to their respective stations. society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara (1546) sig. B.ij There is greatte nombre of parcialities, Cinitiens, Catoniens, Peripaticiens, Academiens, and Epicuriens. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara 165 Mutezuma hath environed them about, because they were of the parciality of Tlaxcallan. 1600 R. Cecil Let. 29 Aug. in (1864) 22 How easye a way it would be founde to dissolve the government when private parshallityes shall open a gapp for practises. 1623 tr. A. Favyn vii. xv. 287 The Inhabitants..were in former times past deuided into two Leagues and partialities. society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero (1603) 198 They [sc. the islands of Japan] are in number 66, diuided into three partialities [It. membri principali]. II. The quality of being a part of something. the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun] 1822 J. M. Good III. 58 Without any attention to the universality or partiality of the disease. 1990 R. Barnett (BNC) 98 Many of the divisions between disciplines..have a logical basis. That, though, should not stop us losing sight of the partiality of single disciplines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1421 |