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Fairness   /fˈɛrnəs/   Listen
Fairness

noun
1.
Conformity with rules or standards.  Synonym: equity.
2.
Ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty.  Synonyms: candor, candour, fair-mindedness.
3.
The property of having a naturally light complexion.  Synonyms: blondness, paleness.
4.
The quality of being good looking and attractive.  Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, loveliness.



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"Fairness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the minor incidents of that march, I will maintain in fairness (though the men of Troy choose to laugh) that the sudden apparition of a black man seated in the morning light upon the Devil's Hedge was enough to daunt even the tried ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... the time to load a theological opponent with vituperation, to push his assertions to the furthest extreme, and make the most unwarrantable deductions from them. It must be acknowledged that Bunyan does not treat Fowler and his doctrines with fairness, and that, if the latter may be thought to depreciate unduly the sacrifice of the Death of Christ as an expiation for man's guilt, and to lay too great a stress on the moral faculties remaining in the soul after the Fall, Bunyan errs still more widely on ...
— The Life of John Bunyan • Edmund Venables

... upon the scenes of earth, is not recorded. If, however, the astronomical appearances which are said to accompany the birth of the mighty ones of the sons of earth are gauged with any degree of fairness, there should have been at least six large comets and any number of meteors distinctly visible. His early life glided by gently as the placid Hoosick, by which he frolicked. Several desperate attempts were made by various misguided individuals ...
— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park

... companion, the litany-singer—lifted the ragged cloth that had been thrown over her bosom, which had been crushed by the chariot wheel, or when she lifted her slender arm, it was seen that she had the shining fairness of those daughters of the north who not unfrequently came to Thebes among the king's prisoners ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... please, father! In fairness to—to everyone I must put the other side.... I suppose the main question is this, after all. Am I fond of him?—fond enough, that is, to marry him—because, of course, I'm fond of him; he's been so extraordinarily ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson


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