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31biblical literature — Introduction four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha. The Old… …
32Liutprand of Cremona — ▪ Lombard bishop also spelled Liudprand born c. 920 died c. 972 Lombard diplomat, historian, and bishop of Cremona whose chronicles are a major source for the history of the 10th century. A member of an aristocratic family,… …
33musical criticism — Introduction branch of philosophical aesthetics concerned with making judgments about composition or performance or both. Unfortunately, it is difficult to show that a value judgment can stand for anything that is even remotely true… …
34Irish Literature — • It is uncertain at what period and in what manner the Irish discovered the use of letters. It may have been through direct commerce with Gaul, but it is more probable, as McNeill has shown in his study of Irish oghams, that it was from the… …
35Morality — • Morality is antecedent to ethics: it denotes those concrete activities of which ethics is the science. It may be defined as human conduct in so far as it is freely subordinated to the ideal of what is right and fitting Catholic Encyclopedia.… …
36England (Before the Reformation) — England (Before the Reformation) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► England (Before the Reformation) This term England is here restricted to one constituent, the largest and most populous, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.… …
37err on the side of — verb To behave in a manner which favours or which is biassed toward. Every man would prefer that the woman in whom he feels an interest should err on the side of bigotry rather than on that of what is called liberalism in points of religious… …
38biased — UK US (also biassed) /ˈbaɪəst/ adjective ► preferring or disliking someone or something more than someone or something else, in a way that means that they are treated unfairly: biased against sb/sth »He believes the American justice system is… …
39biased — (also biassed) adj. VERBS ▪ be ADVERB ▪ extremely, very ▪ heavily, hopelessly, strongly …
40biased — (Roget s Thesaurus II) also biassed adjective 1. Exhibiting bias: one sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced, prejudicial, prepossessed, tendentious. See LIKE, STRAIGHT. 2. Angled at a slant: beveled, bias, diagonal, oblique, slanted, slanting. See …
