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Meanings of partiality in English

Catalan
inclinació
Spanish
gusto

A predisposition to like something.

        inclinació
        Portuguese
        parcialidade
        Catalan
        partidisme
        Spanish
        parcialidad

        An inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives.

            parcialidade
            Usage of partiality in English
            1
            To correct our self-partiality and self-deceit is the use of general rules.
            Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
            2
            The love to the whole is not extinguished by this subordinate partiality.
            Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
            3
            He'd give her that and more if she had a true partiality.
            The irish devil
            4
            As for her partiality for liqueurs, he regarded this as quite natural.
            The Fortune of the Rougons
            5
            One of the reasons for this partiality is not hard to discover.
            The Ways of Men
            6
            The judge who received your evidence will soon repent his odious partiality.
            The Wandering Jew — Volume 07
            7
            The trouble about him was his partiality for playing a lone hand.
            The Thirty-Nine Steps
            8
            The one defect acknowledged by his biographer was his partiality for women.
            Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
            9
            She always took it for a sign either of partiality or fear.
            A Double Story
            10
            While strongly opposed to the impeachment, he manifested no sign of partiality.
            Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
            11
            They regret this partiality as a provincial burr, as greenness and narrowness.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 / A Maga...
            12
            Walt is still ignorant of the peon's partiality for his own sweetheart.
            The Lone Ranche
            13
            These he bestowed sparingly, without partiality, and frequently even on common soldiers.
            The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
            14
            From this time, 1775, no one accused Franklin of partiality to England.
            Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
            15
            Mr. Crabb, meek as he was, was indignant at this flagrant partiality.
            Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
            16
            From partiality to me you won't allow my letters to be letters.
            The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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