indifferency

Definitions

1. Impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually
2. A lack of strong feeling; indifference.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Doe we thinke he will ever digest us, in the temper wee are in? which (to confesse the truth of the fashionable Christian) what is it but a state of neutrality, indifferency, or such a mediocrity, as will just serve⟳ the time, satisfie Law, or stand⟳ with reputation of neighbours?”

“he was sometimes found in his house, bitterly scolding with his sister, for which being reproved, as he that wronged his indifferencie: What? said he; must this seely woman also serve⟳ as a witnesse to my rules?”

“I carried it on as far as this with a sort⟳ of indifferency that he often wondered at, more than at first, but which was the only support⟳ of his courtship; and I mention⟳ it the rather to intimate again to the ladies that nothing but want⟳ of courage for such an indifferency makes our sex so cheap, and prepares them to be ill-used as they are; would they venture the loss of a pretending fop now and then, who carries it high upon the point⟳ of his own⟳ merit, they would certainly be less slighted, and courted more.”

“For example, one sceptical figure⟳ praised the Church of England, in Hume's phrase, "as a Church tending to keep⟳ down fanaticism," and recommendable for its very indifferency; whereupon a transcendental figure⟳ urges him: "You are afraid of the horse's kicking: but will you sacrifice all qualities to being safe from that?”

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