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impartially en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English impartial Middle English -ly English -ly English impartially From impartial + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an impartial manner; fairly.
   • Questions had been raised about Walker's ability to impartially decide the controversial question of same-sex marriage. 2011 June 14, Bill Mears, “Court upholds gay judge's ruling on Proposition 8”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 May 2020:
   • Inasmuch as our correspondent has such a poor opinion of the capacity of men to write understandingly and impartially upon feminine topics, we say to her and everybody else, "The lists are open, ladies—hissez alia!" We will be but as the heralds at the tourney, to sound the trumpets and preserve order. 1870, The editors, The Statesman, volume 1:
   • But the infant […] impartially offered the great green cucumber pickle with which he regaled his "teething appetite," and with which, betweentimes, he combed his mother's head and wiped the dusty outside of the coach. 1905, Ruth McEnery Stuart, "The Romance of Chinkapin Castle" in The Second Wooing of Salina Sue & Other Stories (1969 Garrett Press reprint), p. 192 (Google preview)
   • […] to the inspection of many Orientalists among your readers, very well qualified to decide impartially on the comparative merits of my scheme, at least in its application to the two indispensable languages for British India: namely, the Hindoostanee and Persian tongue. 1825, The Oriental Herald 1825-08: Volume 6, Issue 20, Open Court Publishing Company, page 302:

Forms

Translations (13)

mk непристрасно (in an impartial manner) · de unparteilich (in an impartial manner) · pt imparcialmente (in an impartial manner) · ru беспристра́стно (in an impartial manner) · ml നിഷ്പക്ഷമായി (in an impartial manner) · ru справедли́во (in an impartial manner) · es imparcialmente (in an impartial manner) · de unparteiisch (in an impartial manner) · hu pártatlanul (in an impartial manner) · ca imparcialment (in an impartial manner) · pl bezstronnie (in an impartial manner) · ka მიუდგომლად (in an impartial manner) · ka მიუკერძოებლად (in an impartial manner)