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Definition of Fair chance
1. Noun. A reasonable probability of success.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fair Chance
Literary usage of Fair chance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inequality and Progress by George Harris (1899)
"vin A fair chance BUT what is really meant, it may be said, ... What is meant
is, for every man a fair chance, so that nothing shall stand in the way of his ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888)
"Let him deny what is said, and let the matter have a fair chance by discussion.
But, if a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"... pleasure to many who have awaited the publication of such a system of midwifery.
. WFJ ART. XXI.—Sex in Education, or A fair chance for the Girls. ..."
4. The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the by Robert Dale Owen (1864)
"THE essential is, that we secure to them the means of making their own way,—that
we give them, to use the familiar phrase, " a fair chance. ..."
5. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... every man of them shall have a fair chance, and no privilege, and everybody
may enact everything, if he can.' And now, in the name of all common sense, ..."
6. Disease in Milk: The Remedy, Pasteurization; the Life Work of Nathan Straus by Nathan Straus, Lina Gutherz Straus (1917)
"A fair chance to live! That means the prevention of the diseases that attack,
sap, weaken and kill so many of the babies that are born. ..."
7. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1874)
"287. f Sez iii Education; or, a fair chance for the Girls. By EDWARD H. CLARKE,
MD Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1873. \ Elements of Political Economy. ..."
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