Word Meanings - EVENHANDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to EVENHANDED)

• UNBIAS
  To free from bias or prejudice. Swift.
• IMPARTIAL
  Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
• IMPARTIALIST
  One who is impartial. Boyle.
• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• IMPARTIALNESS
  Impartiality. Sir W. Temple.
• IMPARTIALLY
  In an impartial manner.
• JUSTICEHOOD
  Justiceship. B. Jonson.
• JUSTICEMENT
  Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. Johnson.
• EVENHAND
  Equality. Bacon.
• EVENHANDED
  Fair or impartial; unbiased. "Evenhanded justice." Shak. -- E"ven*hand`ed*ly, adv. -- E"ven*hand`ed*ness, n.
• JUSTICER
  One who administers justice; a judge. "Some upright justicer." Shak.
• JUSTICEABLE
  Liable to trial in a court of justice. Hayward.
• UNBIASED
  Free from bias or prejudice; unprejudiced; impartial. -- Un*bi"ased*ness, n.
• JUSTICE
  1. The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each
• IMPARTIALITY
  The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc. Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion. South.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• CHIEF-JUSTICESHIP
  The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.
• UNJUSTICE
  Want of justice; injustice. Hales.