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Indifferency  n.  Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. "To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause." "Moral liberty... does not, after all, consist in a power of indifferency, or in a power of choosing without regard to motives."






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"Indifferency" Quotes from Famous Books



... lawful but expedient to cultivate a disposition to be pleased with the beauties of nature, by frequent indulgences for that purpose. The mind, by being continually applied to the consideration of ways and means to gain money, contracts an indifferency if not an insensibility to the profusion of beauties which the benevolent Creator has impressed upon every part of the material creation. A sordid love of gold, the possession of what gold can purchase, ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

... or the like cause, to the defenders of ancient established governments, of the English monarchy and liberties, to say, they that are not with us are against us. In internecino bello, in attacks upon government, medii pro hostibus habentur, neutral men are traitors, and assist, by their indifferency, to the destruction of the government. As many as applaud this play, ought to be put under sureties of the peace; and yet not one warrant, that we hear of yet, granted by the ...
— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden



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