indifferency

American  

[in-dif-er-uhn-see, -dif-ruhn-] / ɪnˈdɪf ər ən si, -ˈdɪf rən- /

noun

Archaic.

1. indifference.

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Etymology

Origin of indifferency

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; indifference

Example Sentences

"Then do come husbands," quoth Mr. Martin; "and I vow," he cried, "I know not how to credit there be such vile wretches in the world as should wish to torment their wives; but if such there be, methinks the surest method they may practise is, to loving wives to show indifferency; to such as be jealous, secrecy; to such as be pious, profaneness; and the like in all the points whereon their affections are set."

From Project Gutenberg

Austria proper is pledged to any course of political expediency which may defer the evil day of Imperial accountability, and will probably, in waxing indifferency, see fit to put Lombardy on a spiritual par with Piedmont.

From Project Gutenberg

And the universality of her children, which before espoused her testimony, was after that partly drawn by craft, and partly drawn by cruelty, from a conjunction with their brethren in prosecuting the same, either into an open defection to the contrary side, or into a detestable indifferency and neutrality in the cause of God.

From Project Gutenberg

How then can we explain the fact that it does pass out of this state of indifferency to a choice or volition?

From Project Gutenberg

All possible volitions, according to the scheme of psychology I have above given, must be either in the direction of the reason or of the sensitivity, or in the indifferency of both.

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