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Evenhandedness

Evenhanded \E"ven*hand`ed\, a. Fair or impartial; unbiased. ``Evenhanded justice.''
--Shak. -- E"ven*hand`ed*ly, adv. -- E"ven*hand`ed*ness, n.
--Froude.

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evenhandedness

n. The quality or state of being evenhanded

Usage examples of "evenhandedness".

At this, she visibly fought to control herself, to retain some of her old evenhandedness beneath the weight of her prosecutorial mantle.

The irony of references to his evenhandedness was that, from all accounts, he was missing one hand, and somehow that made him all the more approachable.

She had witnessed his effect on others and the evenhandedness with which he treated all.

I was so nervous that I would have liked an extra glass to settle me down, but I also wanted to make sure that Tamara was as mellow as possible by the time the big moment arrived, so scrupulous evenhandedness seemed politic as well as polite.

None had liked him but they recognized an evenhandedness in the way he had behaved.

He liked Captain Murroy himself slightly more than he feared him, or at least he liked the mans brutal evenhandedness, his unwillingness to complain, his occasional flashes of sour humor.

Kirk listened to the sound of her voice and let the regulation evenhandedness crowd out little fears that still shivered in the corners of his mind.