equality

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This equality is as complete as the equality, before the laws, of the son with the father, immediately on the attainment by the former of his legal majority, without regard to the prior condition of dependence and tutelage.

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  1. noun The state or quality of being equal.
  2. noun Mathematics A statement, usually an equation, that one thing equals another.

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  • If the equality is actual in the representation of the citizens—truth and virtue, being stronger than error and vice, and wisdom being greater than folly, when a fair field is offered—the higher qualities subdue the lower and make themselves felt in every department of the State. —  An Autobiography
  • If each can learn from the other the equality is there, regardless of other inequalities and differences. —  A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story
  • It is important to note that the addition occurring on the left-hand side of this equality is a 'different operation' from the addition on the right-hand side. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • One has to understand that the Obama equality is a despot equality of the people on top dictating to others, and the others are all goat herders for all of their lives without the million dollar homes, but goat ticks instead. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • Because, of course, he isn't actually talking about a new capitalist regime at all; he's talking about social democracy, about the recognition that social accountability and ownership and equality -- in other words, the basic elements of democratic fairness -- are a necessary component of maintaining justice and legitmacy along with human flourishing in the complicated, interdependent world we have built for ourselves. —  In Medias Res
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  1. Middle English equalite, from Old French, from Latin aequālitās, from aequālis, equal; see equal.

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  1. Middle English egalite, from Old French egalite: see egality; Old French equalite, egalite, egalte, eugalte, igalete, ivelte, etc., French égalité = Provencal engaltat = Spanish igualdad = Portuguese igualdade = Italian egualità, ugualità, from Latin æqualita(t-)s, equalness, from æqualis, equal: see equal.
 

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