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adjective

Dispassionate adj.

Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. "Wise and dispassionate men."

Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.

Synonyms: Calm; cool; composed serene; unimpassioned; temperate; moderate; impartial; unruffled.

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... on a dispassionate consideration, that the militant methods of the trade unions are an unfortunate and temporary expedient. The grievances which they have sought to remedy are very real and very bitter; and perhaps, on the whole, the unions have done more good than harm, ...

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... good enough to beat those who lost America, but we must not suppress the little that may be urged on their behalf. Here again may be cited the dispassionate opinion of Adam Smith: "Though the policy of Great Britain with regard to the trade of her colonies has been dictated by the same mercantile spirit as that of other nations, it has, upon the whole, been less illiberal and oppressive than that of any of them." To the same effect Mr Lecky: "It is a ...

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