Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being equitable or impartial; justice; equity; fairness: as, the equitableness of a judge; the equitableness of a decision, or of a distribution of property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being equitable, just, or impartial.
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- noun The state or quality of being
equitable ;equitability .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The transition was some-how made from hence to the equitableness that ought to be in our judg-ments of one another.
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‘All I want is a degree of equitableness between us.’
The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001
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‘All I want is a degree of equitableness between us.’
The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001
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I wish to say one word more, before I take my seat, on the report and scheme of these Park Commissioners; and that is its entire equitableness in its attention to localities.
Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876 Various
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Related to justness, and belonging thereto in the wider sense of the word, is the subordinate virtue of equitableness or fairness.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Right, in the wide sense of the word, has three stages: mere right, which requires that we injure no one; equitableness, which leaves and imparts to every one his own; and piety, which fulfills the will of God and thereby preserves the harmony of the world.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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There is a want of equitableness and fairness in his stern and sometimes cruel condemnations; and yet not religion only, but the wisest wisdom of the world tells of the indispensable value of this equitableness, this old Greek virtue of [Greek: epieikeia], in our views of men and things.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852
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A habit of mind is formed which lasts through life, of which the attributes are, freedom, equitableness, calmness, moderation, and wisdom; or what in a former Discourse I have ventured to call a philosophical habit.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845
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Although the causes of the ruin of Antichrist be to some conspicuous enough, yet to some they may be otherwise; yea, and will to all kings and people whose eyes shall be held, that they may not see the judgment, in the reasonableness and equitableness thereof; and these shall wail when they see 'the smoke of her -- torment'; and these shall cry, Alas!
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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Ovum analyst Tony Cripps said: "To succeed, the WAC operators will have to overcome the sometimes considerable prejudice that developers have towards operator-driven developer communities - for reasons of perceived equitableness, visibility, (in) competence in software matters and various other factors."
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By ASHER MOSES 2010
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