Both Uses of
dispassionate
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- It is now time to look after Sophia; whom the reader, if he loves her half so well as I do, will rejoice to find escaped from the clutches of her passionate father, and from those of her dispassionate lover.†
Book 10dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias
- In this case it will be much wiser to submit to a few inconveniencies arising from the dispassionate deafness of laws, than to remedy them by applying to the passionate open ears of a tyrant.†
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