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Dispassionate

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:08:33

Dis*pas"sion*ate (?), a.

1.

Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.

Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

2.

Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.

Syn. -- Calm; cool; composed serene; unimpassioned; temperate; moderate; impartial; unruffled.

-- Dis*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- Dis*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.

 

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