fairplay

fairplay (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of fair play
   • 1881, G.S. Godkin, “Antonio Panizzi”, in Helen Mathers, editor, The Burlington: A High-class Monthly Magazine, volume 2, page 44:

     It is true he had a hard battle for it; but if he had ungenerous detractors who hated everything not English, he had more numerous friends and supporters; and perhaps in no country in the world would a foreigner like him have obtained such fairplay in the race.

   • 1891, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition), page 1183:

     We ask for the creation of a Government Department which will control the hampering influences of landlords, who are the absolute monopolists of our soil and all our mineral wealth, and for the purpose of giving our mines such fairplay as will tend to the enormous development of our mineral interests.

   • 1962, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Problems of the Softwood Lumber Industry, page 66:

     Your whole idea, Mr. Sarnoff, is to leave to the sense of fairplay of broadcasters this problem of giving a proper and adequate hearing to the so-called minor parties?

   • 1968, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 26603:

     A sense of fairplay would dictate that 2 years is more than a reasonable period of time for this study to be completed and for Congress then to take such action as it deems right and proper.

   • 1975, H. A. J. Hulugalle, The Life and Times of Don Stephen Senanayake, Sri Lanka's First Prime Minister, page 253:

     His deep humanity and sense of fairplay and justice endeared him to all communities.

   • 1993, George Bush, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 404:

     And I hope our Presidency has been one of decency, a sense of honor, a sense of fairplay, and I'm just going to continue to emphasize these themes.

   • 2006, V. Srinivasan, New Age Management: Philosophy from Ancient India:

     This will create a sense of disappointment in the subordinates concerned and they will feel that there was no fairplay.

Unadapted borrowing from English fair play.

fairplay n (uncountable)

1. fair play