单词 | unprejudice |
释义 | unprejudicen. Somewhat rare. The quality of being unprejudiced; lack of prejudice, impartiality. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [noun] franchisec1325 liberal-mindedness1625 unbiassednessa1656 unprejudicateness1660 unprejudicedness1664 unprejudice1721 liberality1783 enlargement1806 imprejudice1806 unpossessednessc1819 liberalism1820 open-mindedness1832 liberalness1861 1721 R. Samber in tr. A. de La Motte 100 New Court Fables Ep. Ded. p. iv Few Persons who undertake that Province acquit themselves with that Impartiality and Unprejudice (if I may use the Term) the Subject necessarily requires. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 92 Carlyle..has now been so long before the world that we may feel toward him something of the unprejudice of posterity. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Mar. 216/5 The reader is recommended to consult Aloys Kontarsky's instructive and witty essay..as a corrective to the author's too scrupulous unprejudice. 2009 E. Sheppard et al. World of Difference (ed. 2) iii. xiii. 343/2 The Belgians started with the advantage of inexperience and therefore a kind of naive ‘unprejudice’ in colonial management. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). unprejudicev. Now rare. transitive. To free from prejudice or bias. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > judge with prejudice [verb (transitive)] > free from prejudice disprejudice1654 unprejudice1662 1662 Tryal Sir H. Vane 75 For the Vindicating of his own Innocency, and unprejudicing the Juries understanding. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. May 395/2 Let any person of the least feeling, not to mention taste or art, unprejudice his mind, and he must find himself more interested in viewing the..statue. 1833 Arkansas Gaz. 20 Mar. The inhabitants of Van Buren make this present statement..to unprejudice the public with respect to a man already sufficiently persecuted. 1869 W. B. Scott Albert Durer vi. 94 Let me ask the reader to try to unprejudice his mind, and consider the subject from Durer's point of view. 1993 S. Tweyman in R. Descartes Introd. 25 The arguments presented are designed to unprejudice the mind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1721v.1662 |
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