even-handedadj.adv.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Euen handed, æquimanus.

1888 Harper's Young People 11 Sept. 808/2 There are women who can darn stockings..and do many other useful things with either hand, mechanics who are even-handed, and men who are ambidextrous in numerous other ways.

1965 M. Johnson in I Declare (1983) 52 If you have a tendency toward misery in your arm..it'll hesitate you unless you're ‘even-handed’ and spell the hurtin' arm by ironing with the other.

1994 T. D. Jakes Can You stand to be Blessed? viii. 113 Cora is what my grandmother would call even-handed. The hand she uses depends on what she is trying to accomplish. Cora is ambidextrous.

2015 @shalun_peachyy 23 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I'm also even handed, most ppl think I'm ultimately right handed but I shoot pool, ball, & fight with my left hand starting.

1611 A. Munday Chruso-thriambos sig. B In her euen-handed-Ballance,..: shee not onely gaue that Stone to her golden Sonnes, the Gold-Smiths, but her Daughter, Goldes figure likewise.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 10 This euen-handed Iustice Commends th'Ingredience of our poyson'd Challice To our owne lips.

1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. 441 He should fix his eyes vpon Ministers that are faithfull, euen-handed, full of integritie, disinteressed and true both in their words and deeds.

1718 Mem. Publick Trans. D. of Shrewsbury. 137 He went on his own way, by a steady moderate even-handed management of Affairs.

1740 J. Bell Piety Promoted VII. 102 A Mother tenderly affectionate and even handed.

1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol ii. 65 This is the even-handed dealing of the world!.. There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xviii. 305 Pompey's justice was even-handed.

1906 H. Wilcox Strange Flaw xiv. 224 If this is Justice..; tear down the Goddess with her even-handed scales.

1980 J. A. Pechman Setting National Priorities i. 24 Until recently, Washington..was in principle evenhanded in its dealings with the Soviet Union and China.

2015 Daily Californian (Berkeley) (Nexis) 15 Sept. (Opinion section) 1 Everyone should agree on the need to enforce existing law in a fair and even-handed manner.

1742 tr. C. de Fieux de Mouhy Busy-body I. i. x. 148 He offered to give her the Queen, but she answered she would play with him even handed [Fr. elle répondit qu'elle vouloit jouer à but]; for, whenever he gave her any Advantage, it brought her ill Luck.

1755 in French Policy Defeated 71 They would have been able to have fought the Enemy even-handed.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. v. 153 My ambition of distinction in arms, and my love of strife..do not fight even-handed with my reason.

1885 Trans. Wisconsin State Agric. Soc. 23 171 You find no part of the United States where you can compete even-handed.

1916 W. T. Jackman Devel. Transportation Mod. Eng. I. 435 This privilege was given them in order that they might endeavour to compete even-handed with the railway companies.

1943 Extension Reciprocal Trade Agreem. Act: Hearings before Comm. Ways & Means (U.S. House of Representatives, 78th Congr. 1st Sess.) 702 I think the small businessman..is equally well qualified..to deal even-handed with men from any of the other types of organizations.

1829 G. Wyatt Let. to Godfrey Higgins 5 If it really were your wish fairly and evenhandedly to illustrate the character of Mohamed,..you have pursued a course, which will give a fatal stab to your intentions.

1863 Baptist Mag. Jan. 28 History should be impartial like justice, and deal even-handedly with all who come under its review.

1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Oct. 7/6 Immersion means instruction in French, and it is offered even-handedly to all comers, those who speak French and those who do not.

2003 B. Fagan Before Calif. (2004) p. xi I have attempted to navigate through the treacherous shoals of controversy as even-handedly as I could.

1820 New Times 9 Aug. Never was the invariable impartiality and even-handedness of the administration of our laws more strikingly displayed.

1864 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (rev. ed.) II. vii. 52 Had Smith been the only offender, it might have been expected that he would have been gladly sacrificed as an evidence of Elizabeth's evenhandedness.

1984 Listener 10 May 22/3 Instant even-handedness requires me now to deal with Conservative suspicions that the BBC is an extensive nest of leftish agitators.

2002 E. Elbourne Blood Ground v. 211 Justice had been visibly seen to be done, in a ritual designed to impress the populace with the even-handedness of the law.