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disˈpassionately, adv. [f. dispassionate a. + -ly2.] In a dispassionate or calm manner.
1717J. Killingbeck Serm. 191 (T.) As if she had only dispassionately reasoned the case with him. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. i. xi. 59 To speak dispassionately of the conduct of the Dutch. 1806A. Knox Rem. I. 29 These passages ought to be dispassionately investigated. a1853Robertson Lect. (1858) 270, I ask the meeting to listen to me dispassionately. ¶ Used as = ‘passionately’: cf. dispassionate¶.
1658Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 201, I found no billows dispassionately acting to endanger the passage of my late surcharged vessel..All appeared to me as in a calm sea. |