KJV dictionary & concordance
Bias, favouritism, prejudgment, or unfair preference that treats persons or matters by personal advantage rather than consistent truth and righteous judgment.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Timothy 5:21
Complete exact-word concordance
I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
I charge thee before God, and the Lord Iesus Christ, and the elect Angels, that thou obserue these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partialitie.
1611 marginal noteOr, without preiudice.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
But the wisedome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easie to be intreated, full of mercy, and good fruits, without partialitie, and without hypocrisie.
1611 marginal noteOr, without wrangling.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Inclination to favor one party or one side of a question more than the other; an undue bias of mind towards one party or side, which is apt to warp the judgment.
