IMPARTIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impartially mean? 

• IMPARTIALLY (adverb)
  The adverb IMPARTIALLY has 1 sense:

1. in an impartial manner

  Familiarity information: IMPARTIALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPARTIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an impartial manner

Context example:

he smiled at them both impartially

Pertainym:

impartial (showing lack of favoritism)

 Context examples 

They fought on, through exhaustion and beyond, to exhaustion immeasurable and inconceivable, until the crowd of brutes, its blood-lust sated, terrified by what it saw, begged them impartially to cease.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Lastly, I would carefully record every action and event of consequence, that happened in the public, impartially draw the characters of the several successions of princes and great ministers of state, with my own observations on every point.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was in one of these short meetings, each apparently occupied in admiring a fine display of greenhouse plants, that she said—I have been thinking over the past, and trying impartially to judge of the right and wrong, I mean with regard to myself; and I must believe that I was right, much as I suffered from it, that I was perfectly right in being guided by the friend whom you will love better than you do now.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Fanny's disgust at the greater part of this letter, with her extreme reluctance to bring the writer of it and her cousin Edmund together, would have made her (as she felt) incapable of judging impartially whether the concluding offer might be accepted or not.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Elton looked as if he did not very well know what answer to make; which was exactly the case; for though very much gratified by the kind care of such a fair lady, and not liking to resist any advice of her's, he had not really the least inclination to give up the visit;—but Emma, too eager and busy in her own previous conceptions and views to hear him impartially, or see him with clear vision, was very well satisfied with his muttering acknowledgment of its being very cold, certainly very cold, and walked on, rejoicing in having extricated him from Randalls, and secured him the power of sending to inquire after Harriet every hour of the evening.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But this was the only time I was ever guilty of so uncleanly an action; for which I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance, after he has maturely and impartially considered my case, and the distress I was in.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)