Word Finder - fairest

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Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.

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Monday's child is fair of face.

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Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.

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After scratching out and replacing various words in the manuscript, he scribed a fair copy to send to the publisher.

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Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.

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She had fair hair and blue eyes.

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Just, equitable.

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He must be given a fair trial.

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Adequate, reasonable, or decent.

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The patient was in a fair condition after some treatment.

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(of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.

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Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.

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a fair sky;  a fair day

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Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.

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a fair mark;  in fair sight;  a fair view

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Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

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Between the baselines.

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(of a catch) Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.

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(of a ball delivered by the bowler) Not a no-ball.

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Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.

The ministry seemed to offer the fairest field for its satisfaction.

In the following year, Jean Ribaut (1520-1565), with a band of French Huguenots, landed first near St Augustine and then at the mouth of the St Johns river, which he called the river of May, and on behalf of France claimed the country, which he described as " the fairest, fruitfullest and pleasantest of all the world "; but he made his settlement on an island near what is now Beaufort, South Carolina.

Hence it is that the Nubians of this district, fairest of all the race, still claim Arab and Osmanli (Bosnian) descent.

Such, at any rate, seems the fairest interpretation of 1 Tim.

I assert nothing beyond their language when I call them Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Celts and Slaves; and in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians.

We believe that if increased compulsion is necessary, the fairest way to achieve it would be through the state pension system.

Thy fairest hopes undone bring desolation, or else, fulfilled, shall vanish in a day.

Furthermore, on strictly legal grounds, the fairest thing to do would be to charge both of them for assault.

He returned in 146 to find Corinth in ruins, the fairest cities of Achaea at the mercy of the Roman soldiery, and the famous Achaean League shattered to pieces (see Achaean League).

After figuring out exactly what is owned, the couple should discuss the fairest way to divide all of the assets.

The foundation is available in a large variety of shades from the fairest to the deepest deep.

White Bush Poppy (Romneya) - The fairest plant that ever came to our land from that country of flowers, California.

Silver can look lovely on darker skin while black can be a striking contrast against the fairest of skin.

A fourth humiliating episode in this period was the invasion of the Magyar barbarians, who overran the north of Italy, and reduced its fairest provinces to the condition of a wilderness.

The dominion of Alp Arslan now extended over the fairest part of Asia; 1200 princes or sons of princes surrounded his throne and 200,000 warriors were at his command.

The beautiful Public Garden and the finest residential quarter of the city - the Back Bay, so called from that inner harbour from whose waters it was reclaimed (1856-1886) - stand on what was once the narrowest, but to-day is the widest and fairest portion of the original site.

The fairest and most considerable of Palacky's antagonists in the controversy aroused by his narrative of the early reformation in Bohemia was Baron Helfert, who received a brief from Vienna to write his Hus rind Hieronymus (1853) to counteract the impression made by Palacky's History.

The smartest epigrams, the fairest similes, the keenest satires, spoken or sung on such occasions, were treasured in the memory of the hearers and carried by them to their homes.

In regard to physical features they present at the present time very many varieties both of stature and of pigmentation, though on the whole they are probably the tallest and fairest of European peoples.

When Lysias, in his Olympiacus (spoken here), calls it " the fairest spot of Greece," he was doubtless thinking also - or perhaps chiefly - of the masterpieces which art, in all its forms, had contributed to the embellishment of this national sanctuary.

Austria, shorn of her fairest provinces, robbed of her oversea commerce, bankrupt and surrounded on all sides by the territories of the French emperor and his allies, seemed to exist only on sufferance, and had ceased to have any effective authority in Germanynow absolutely in the power of Napoleon, who proved this in 1810 by annexing the whole of the northern coast as far as the Elbe to his empire.

Luther had a high opinion of her intelligence; she took rank among those consulted on all important occasions; in one letter to her, seldom quoted, he gives the fairest statement he ever made about the views of Zwingli on the Sacrament of the Supper.

The occupation of the fairest provinces of the Roman empire by the northern barbarians had little in common with colonization.

Among his people he is accounted the fairest, strongest and wisest man of the empire; and from him is required the practice of all piety and virtue, as well as skill in the chaseand in armsespecially the bow.

Properly therefore it stands in marked antithesis to that fairest growth of old Hellas, the Academy, which saw the Stoa rise and fall - the one the typical school of Greece and Greek intellect, the other of the Hellenized East, and, under the early Roman Empire, of the whole civilized world.

Against her many shortcomings we must set the queen's foundation of the university of Dublin, which has been the most successful English institution in Ireland, and which has continually borne the fairest fruit.

No, no; if the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.