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  • noun The condition of being partial; partiality

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  • noun the state of being only a part; not total; incomplete

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Examples

  • And they must face the slowness and partialness of social change while continuing to dream big.

    Activism Answers - Women Who Dared - Jewish Women's Archive 2010

  • No evidence, just similar-looking skeletal remains (often remarkable for their partialness), mostly out of sequence.

    The Memory Hole 2005

  • Here I soon began to suffer (what I now suppose) the ill effects of the false education and false living (the tobacco-chewing, physical inertness, mental partialness, and the rest) of long foregoing years.

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

  • Not to recognize the partialness and imperfection of this record in all these respects is to be guilty of a grave disloyalty to the kingdom of the truth.

    Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

  • It is too bland and hook-devoid for the heart-on-their-sleeves teenage demographic and too polished and pop-punk-easy-listening for anybody with a faint partialness to even the most staunch minimalist of virile tendencies.

    gauntlet.ucalgary.ca RSS feed 2009

  • It is too bland and hook-devoid for the heart-on-their-sleeves teenage demographic and too polished and pop-punk-easy-listening for anybody with a faint partialness to even the most staunch minimalist of virile tendencies.

    gauntlet.ucalgary.ca RSS feed 2009

  • It is too bland and hook-devoid for the heart-on-their-sleeves teenage demographic and too polished and pop-punk-easy-listening for anybody with a faint partialness to even the most staunch minimalist of virile tendencies.

    gauntlet.ucalgary.ca RSS feed 2009

  • Peter Donolo demonstrates far too much partialness towards the liberals with his comments.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • It is too bland and hook-devoid for the heart-on-their-sleeves teenage demographic and too polished and pop-punk-easy-listening for anybody with a faint partialness to even the most staunch minimalist of virile tendencies.

    gauntlet.ucalgary.ca RSS feed 2009

  • It is too bland and hook-devoid for the heart-on-their-sleeves teenage demographic and too polished and pop-punk-easy-listening for anybody with a faint partialness to even the most staunch minimalist of virile tendencies.

    gauntlet.ucalgary.ca RSS feed 2009

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