Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
partiality
IPA transcription: [p,ɑɹʃi'æləti]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
partiality, partisanship
Meaning:
an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
Synonyms:
fondness, fancy, partiality
Meaning:
a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"
Usage examples
Dictated by an overweening partiality
He seemed to have a partiality for swiping.
With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.
Pierre had but to show a partiality for anything to get just what he liked done always.
He said, "I have heard that superior men show no partiality; are they, too, then, partial?
Born in partiality, in order to accomplish its tasks it must achieve a certain detached impartiality.
Of course, intellect, too, is transient and not eternal, but you know why I cherish a partiality for it.
Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind.
Thus Mr. Tebrick had a whole family now to occupy him, and, indeed, came to love them with very much of a father's love and partiality.
But perhaps Lanyard was prejudiced by his partiality for Americans, a sentiment the outgrowth of the years spent in New York with Bourke.