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prosopolespsy ? Obs.|prɒˈsəʊpəʊˌlɛpsɪ, -ˌliːpsɪ|
[ad. Gr. προσωποληψία (a Hebraism of the N.T.) acceptance of the face or person, f. προσωπολήπτης an acceptor of the face or person, f. πρόσωπον face + λαµβάνειν to take, accept.]
Acceptance or ‘acception’ of the face or person of any one (see acception 2, person 13); respect of persons, undue favour shown to a particular person; partiality.
1646Buck Rich. III Ded., The Historiographer, veritable; free from all Prosopolepsyes, or partiall respects. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 567 The Assumption of it was neither Fortuitous nor Partial, or with Prosopolepsie (the Acception of Persons) but bestowed upon it justly for the Merit of its Vertues. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 116 The English rule is a model of justice. There is no prosopolepsy in it; no respect of persons. All men are equal, and have equal rights.
Hence † prosopoˈlepsian Obs., one given to ‘prosopolepsy’; a ‘respecter of persons’.
1647J. Heydon Discov. Fairfax 11 God's no Prosopolepsian, he respects the poore as well as the rich. |