Word Meanings - INDISCRIMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson.
Related words: (words related to INDISCRIMINATION)
- JEFFERSONIA
An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves ; twinleaf. - JEFFERSONIAN
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell. - DISTINCTION
1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from - DISCRIMINATION
The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service. A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley. 4. The quality of being discriminating; - JEFFERSONITE
A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc. - JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY
The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President , eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort, - 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. - INDISTINCTION
Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being - CONTRADISTINCTION
Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South. - INDISCRIMINATION
Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson.