Synonyms:
fairness, equity
Meaning: conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim"
Usage examples
It is only in the latter light that it can be admitted to have any pretensions to fairness.
'I got them this morning - cook - and I'd quite forgotten,' he explained as he divided them with scrupulous fairness into four heaps.
And we are sometimes too apt to count all that love of common fairness, and that hatred of foul play, as a sure sign of some sympathy with the hated truth itself.
And as for me, said Sir Launcelot, I promise you upon this book that an I may meet with him, either with fairness or foulness I shall bring him to this court, or else I shall die therefore.
"I'm with you--don't you see?--still." And as to make it more vivid to him she rose from her chair--a movement she seldom risked in these days--and showed herself, all draped and all soft, in her fairness and slimness.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hamlet, License CC BY-SA 4.0