Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of imparting; impartment. The balance between two opposing impartances of morality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Impartation.
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- noun
impartation
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Examples
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According to LCV, Dana has not scored about 17% on his votes over the past decade and only 10% in votes on issues of environmental impartance. 10 of 100?
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Having been answered in the affirmative, he then proceeded to ask whether there was a blackguard boy in the house who would take "the horse to the steeble;" whether "he could have a dthrink of small-beer or buthermilk, being, faith, uncommon dthry;" and whether, finally, "he could be feevored with a few minutes 'private conversation with her and Mr. Hees, on a matther of consitherable impartance."
Catherine: a Story William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Sor, I am bould to say that yersilf, honored as ye are fer hevin 'the biggest hid on the shmallest body in the world, had yer hid been as big as a base dhrum an' yer body as shmall as a marble, ye would be regarded as av no impartance in comparison wid this ould witch av a Gran'mother Cruncher. "
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg
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