All 3 Uses
impartial
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The Grass is Singing
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- While she talked, pushing the roughened hair out of her eyes with her habitual impatient gesture, he felt hurt too; he recognized the justice of her remarks, he was prevented from defensiveness because of the impartiality of her voice; but at the same time the impartiality stung him and wounded him.†
p. 137.9impartiality = lack of favoritism or bias
- While she talked, pushing the roughened hair out of her eyes with her habitual impatient gesture, he felt hurt too; he recognized the justice of her remarks, he was prevented from defensiveness because of the impartiality of her voice; but at the same time the impartiality stung him and wounded him.†
p. 137.9
- Mrs. Slatter would have had to be a most extraordinary woman to remain perfectly impartial and fair to Mary, after having been snubbed so many times.†
p. 193.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(impartial) without favoritism or bias
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)