partiality

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Partiality or inequality in deciding whom to prosecute and how to punish invites tyranny.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2020

Partiality in favouring, and speaking for the scandalous, whether Ministers or other persons, teaching them how to shift and delay censures.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

Partiality is properly the understanding's judging according to the inclination of the will and affections, and not according to the exact truth of things, or the merits of the cause.—South.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Now to account for this seeming Partiality, I have the following Points to offer; and I intreat my Readers to attend particularly to them.

From An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland, Who, by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property, Their Liberal Education, Elevated Rank, and Enlarged Views, Are the Ablest to Judge, and the Fittest to Decide, Whether a Connection with, Or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of These Kingdoms by Tucker, Josiah

Without Partiality I may say, you have done me but Justice.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo