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without fear or favor

without fear or favor is the alternative form of without fear or favour.

Meaning of without fear or favour

Prepositional phrase

  1. In an equal and fair manner.
    • The judge made his decision without fear or favour.

Questions about without fear or favor

What is without fear or favor the alternative form of?
Without fear or favor is the alternative form of without fear or favour.

Words near without fear or favor in the dictionary

  1. without day
  2. without doubt
  3. without end
  4. without exception
  5. without fail
  6. without fear or favor
  7. without fear or favour
  8. without further adieu
  9. without further ado
  10. without incident
  11. without loss of generality

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Adapted from Wiktionary: without fear or favor (page history and authors); without fear or favour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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