Meanings
comparative more neutrologistic · superlative most neutrologistic
- Neither eulogistic nor dyslogistic; having a neutral affect, with neither positive nor negative connotations.
Out of the most multitudinous vocabulary, very few terms, comparatively considered, can be selected that are absolutely neutrologistic; i.e. purely intellectual, without any mixture of sentiment and prejudice and passion.
1829, Thomas Tegg, London Encyclopaedia2 more examples
Concerning the neutrologistic character of the sentence — Man is naturally mortal, there can be no controversy. It is one of those (comparatively few positions which never produce difference of opinion or of affection; for no human being was ever yet offended any more than gratified by this affirmation;
1824, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Etymologic Interpreter, page 78To avoid the use of terms which imply a foregone conclusion, we shall not employ what Jeremy Bentham calls Eulogistic or Dislogistic expressions, but those which he aptly calls Neutrologistic, naming the one the Old, the other the New School.
1878, William Binnington Boyce, Six lectures on the higher criticism upon the Old Testament, page 5
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