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unprejudice en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + prejudice.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Absence of prejudice.
    • In the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, there are two doors that block entry to the exhibition. One door is marked 'prejudice'; the other 'unprejudice'. When one tries to open the door 'unprejudice', a light comes on and a recording: "Think . . . now use the other door'. We all harbour prejudice. 2009 in Pigeon page 20
    • as Mr. Fiske said practically the other day at Baltimore, five years before the Baptist colony at Providence proclaimed religious toleration, the Catholic colony at Maryland proclaimed it; it is well to read history aright. Thank God, there are men who read it with the clear spectacles of reason and unprejudice; we are willing to trust ourselves to them. 1894 in Book Notes - Consisting of Literary Gossip, Criticisms of Books and Local Historical Matters Connected with Rhode Island · Volumes 11-13 page 61, Conaty quoting Fisk