Noun, : the partiality of parents for their own children. ,a partiality for country living. From Dictionary.com.
Tancred, his partiality is encountered by the partiality of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Oh give it s rest - your partiality is overcoming your intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Remember, David Cameron has done nothing wrong - "I was just following the rules"] Reference
This clearly demonstrates that the BBC has its own political agenda, in breach of partiality, which is most alarming. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Look there, and tell me, without partiality, which is the handsomest of those two that lie asleep, the young man or the young lady. '. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights] Reference
Look on that bed, and tell me, without partiality, which is the handsomest of those two who lie there asleep, the young man or the young lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
To remove the idea of partiality I have suggested the propriety & justice of continuing this fund till all the rivers shall be cleared successively. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
Gibbon’s inference may appear stronger than the text will warrant, yet it is difficult, after reading the passages, to dismiss all suspicion of partiality from the mind. —. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
It is not "partiality" for presidential aides to receive information or express opinions relating to the interests of the President for whom they work. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd Cutler Testimony Before Us House Of Representatives] Reference
It's a wrongness that weighs heavily, sometimes, on the soul, because it imposes a kind of partiality on love, because it prevents that love from being experienced to the fullest. From Wordnik.com. [One Kiss Breaches A Distance] Reference
Anti-gay Congressman attacks Obama for showing 'partiality' to African-Americans. From Wordnik.com. [memeorandum] Reference
We see in such a passage what her merit really is, the reason of our liking or "partiality" for her. From Wordnik.com. [Afoot in England] Reference
Miss Pepper had hinted several times, at sewing circle and after prayer meeting, of "partiality" and "only stoppin 'in where they had fancy curtains up to the windows.". From Wordnik.com. [Keziah Coffin] Reference
Hated him because of the dreams and their father's partiality. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
It is the partiality of a fond father that speaks, my dear fellow. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
His countrymen have even accused him of unpatriotic partiality for the. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The charge of police partiality was another disturbing echo from the past. From Wordnik.com. [Murder In Malaysia] Reference
Pregnant with partiality, penniless from giving it all away before I had it. From Wordnik.com. [Teenage want] Reference
It is a fact that little companies exist, in spite of the State's partiality. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
No more is the partiality which, it is said, was manifestly shown him by Lord. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
In the meantime, the partiality of the people of Georgia had placed me in the United States senate. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
(You suspect that any gatekeeping organisation would be subject to the same complaints of partiality.). From Wordnik.com. [Film Council axemen could murder an industry] Reference
"When we do not speak of things with a partiality full of love, what we say is not worth being repeated.". From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
"I confess to partiality for the thick of the fray, the brunt of the fight, where men press all around you.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
I said I had no wish to rejoin the English settlers, and I denied, with tears, any partiality for my dear love. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Everybody who then saw her said the same; so that it is not merely the impression of my partiality or my enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
These are the heroes of his imagination, and the history of their doings is unconsciously tempered by this partiality. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Young Man Absalom Safe? A Sermon Preached in The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Stoke Bishop, on Sunday, July 19th, 1885] Reference
By them, no regard was paid to private solicitation, to personal partiality, or to national, party, or other prejudice. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
English aversion for French modern literature has disappeared, and been replaced by partiality -- not to say affection. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The committee in the house followed his opinions, because the necessity of the times was made the excuse of partiality. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference
Colonel Napier's strong partiality to the light division sometimes prevents his doing full justice to other portions of the army. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Most men have a natural fondness and partiality for their native country, and leave it with reluctance while they are able to earn. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
The assumption about "fairness" is that everyone is entitled to partiality from the federal government in the allocation of special benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Fly Me, Air Uncle Sam] Reference
A new report issued by the International Crisis Group - hardly known for its partiality toward the official Israeli position - affirms Israel's cautious stance. From Wordnik.com. [Ben S. Cohen: A Deadly Game in Lebanon] Reference
David deVries, the producer-writer-director of the project, wrote a rebuttal "to the sneering, scurrilous accusations of prejudice and partiality about the shows.". From Wordnik.com. [PBS chief: no regrets over Shultz three-parter] Reference
According to Hamilton, foreign influence is "most dangerous when it comes under the patronage of our passions, under the auspices of national prejudice and partiality.". From Wordnik.com. [Israel Is Not America's Greatest Ally] Reference
This would avoid the court potentially splitting 4 to 4 on a case and, Leahy hopes, encourage justices to recuse themselves more often when there is an appearance of partiality. From Wordnik.com. [A deep bench of substitute justices goes unused] Reference
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