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They defined with tolerable distinctness in what they did consider all men created equal--equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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  1. adjective Having the same quantity, measure, or value as another.
  2. adjective Mathematics Being the same or identical to in value.
  3. adjective Having the same privileges, status, or rights: equal before the law.
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  • Mathematicians term equal-sided figures "regular," and in nineteenth century terms, proper upper class polygons are of the regular sort. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
  • A civilized being would not accept a savage as his equal, his socius , his friend. —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. —  To Kill A Mockingbird
  • It was strange to treat with her as an almost-equal, after so many years as her pupil, but she was gracious as ever and any awkwardness soon passed between us. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Three hundred and fifty millions of livres--equal, probably, to three hundred millions of dollars in this age--were thus swept away. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
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  1. Middle English, from Latin aequālis, from aequus, even, level.

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  1. Early modern English also equall; from Middle English equal (also egal: see egal), from Old French equal, equail, equaul, egual, egal, aigal, ugal, etc., ewal, euwel, yewel, yevel, ievel, ivel, yvel, etc., French égal = Provencal egual = Spanish Portuguese igual = Italian eguale, uguale, from Latin æqualis, equal, like, from æquus, plain, even, level, flat (cf. æquum, a plain, æquor, a level, especially the level sea), equal, like; perhaps akin to Sanskrit ēka, one.
  2. from equal, adjective
  3. from Middle English equalen, equelen; from equal, adjective
 

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