unbias en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + bias.
Meanings
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(transitive) To free (someone or something) from bias or prejudice.
But before Things proceed to open Violence, the trueſt Service a private Man may hope to do his Country, is by unbiaſſing his Mind as much as poſſible, and then endeavoring to moderate between the Rival Powers, […]
1708 January (date written), [Jonathan Swift], “The Sentiments of a Church of England-man with Respect to Religion and Government”, in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, volume I, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1711, →OCLC, page 98:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unbiassed | Tense=Past | rare | lexicographic |
| unbiassed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | rare | lexicographic |
| unbiased | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unbiased | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unbiasing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unbiassing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | rare | lexicographic |
| unbiases | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| unbiasses | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | rare | lexicographic |