Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not influenced; not persuaded or moved by others, or by foreign considerations; not biased; acting freely.
  • Not proceeding from influence, bias, or prejudice: as, uninfluenced conduct or actions.

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  • adjective Not influenced

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  • adjective not influenced or affected

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Examples

  • Fig. 8 shows such a capillary, part in uninfluenced condition, part after it has been lightly scratched in the middle.

    August Krogh - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • Similarly, if inadmissible information, highly prejudicial to either the Government or the accused, has been brought to the attention of the court, and it appears to the convening authority that the members of the court cannot be reasonable expected to remain uninfluenced thereby, he may withdraw the case from that court and refer it to another court.

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214 1951

  • Hitherto the country voters had been the most independent; now the members of the urban proletariate were equally free, and from this time forth the voice of the city could find an expression uninfluenced by the smiles or frowns of wealthy patrons.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • There is extreme divergence of opinion on this point, but I have found on the whole that engineers and others who have approached the subject with an open and "uninfluenced" mind, have come to substantially similar conclusions.

    The St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Project: A Canadian View of Its Economic Aspects 1928

  • [M] y pamphlet was quite uninfluenced by the teacher, perhaps on this point, indeed, I showed all too great a scrupulosity; from my words one might have thought nobody had ever inquired into the case before, and I was the first to interrogate those who had seen or heard of the mole, the first to correlate the evidence, the first to draw conclusions.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • And if those in charge of allocating the scarce supply of organs were all-wise and uninfluenced by the level of contributions needy recipients have made to their hospitals 'capital drives.

    Organ Transplant Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Being mentally unstable is separate and distinct from whether someone is "uninfluenced."

    Morris W. O'Kelly: Tucson Tragedy Demands Discourse Recall Morris W. O'Kelly 2011

  • My years serving football and Fifa lead me to think, and presume, that at the very least the ethics committee will give me the fair hearing that I deserve, uninfluenced by political agendas or other interests.

    Mohamed bin Hammam vows to clear his name over Fifa corruption charges 2011

  • Being mentally unstable is separate and distinct from whether someone is "uninfluenced."

    Morris W. O'Kelly: Tucson Tragedy Demands Discourse Recall Morris W. O 2011

  • Specifically, ANY benefits granted retroactively (such as increasing a pension factor per-year-of-service from 2% to 3% but have it apply to PAST as well as future years of service), and benefits so excessive on their face (such as the 3% at age 50 for safety workers in California) that an independent/uninfluenced actuarial analysis would have concluded that they are unsustainable (using reasonable tax and investment return assumptions).

    Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem 2010

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