Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state of being partial.
- n. Favorable prejudice or bias.
- n. A special fondness; a predilection: had a partiality for cats. See Synonyms at predilection.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being partial. Inclination to favor one party or one side of a question more than the other; an undue bias of mind toward one party or side.
- n. A special fondness; a stronger inclination to one person or thing than to others: with to or for: as, a partiality for poetry or painting.
- n. A party; faction.
- n. Synonyms Favoritism, unfairness
- n. Liking, predilection, leaning, fancy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
- n. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
- n. a predisposition to like something
Examples
“This generous assistant was a disbanded officer, of a good family and fair reputation; who, by what we call the partiality of fortune, to avoid censuring the iniquities of the times, wanted even a plain suit of clothes to make a decent appearance at the castle.”
“Oh give it s rest - your partiality is overcoming your intelligence.”
Remember, David Cameron has done nothing wrong - "I was just following the rules"
“Calvinistic; in partiality for mercy, even to the neglect of justice, he was Socinian; but we may speak of him as at once orthodox and liberal, devout and humanitarian; to whom the kingdom of heaven came without observation, and was not declared in the usual phrases, but whose "CALLING was of God.”
“Tancred, his partiality is encountered by the partiality of”
“This clearly demonstrates that the BBC has its own political agenda, in breach of partiality, which is most alarming.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Oxford; a good sort of a man, though most ridiculously warped in his political principles; but his partiality is the less offensive, as it never appears in the stile of scurrility and abuse.”
“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. —”
“Look there, and tell me, without partiality, which is the handsomest of those two that lie asleep, the young man or the young lady. ”
“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.”
“There was nothing like blue water to this sailor's wife, whose heart had been upon it for so many anxious months; the extravagance of her partiality was the joke of husband and friends against her.”
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Kristianto2010 Bribery (suapan, sogokan) deprives others of justice, which is an offense against the character of God, who is “God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality (sikap memihak) nor takes a bribe” Deuteronomy 10:17 - ODB July 27, 2011 Jul 26, 2011