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Webster 1913 Edition


Dispassionate

Dis-pas′sion-ate

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Adj.
1.
Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
Wise and
dispassionate
men.
Clarendon.
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Dis-pas′sion-ate-ly
,
adv.
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Dis-pas′sion-ate-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dispassionate

DISPASSIONATE

,
Adj.
1.
Free from passion; calm; composed; impartial; moderate; temperate; unmoved by feelings; applied to persons; as dispassionate men or judges.
2.
Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; applied to things; as dispassionate proceedings.