Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Equality as regards rights and privileges; isonomia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Equal law or right; equal distribution of rights and privileges; similarity.
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- noun
equal law orright ; equaldistribution of rights andprivileges ;similarity
Etymologies
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Examples
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He suggested the definition of health as the maintenance of equilibrium, or an "isonomy" in the material qualities of the body.
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He suggested the definition of health as the maintenance of equilibrium, or an "isonomy" in the material qualities of the body.
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Now, isonomy is an English word meaning 'equality of laws, or of people before the law', as is attunement, but not so "apmonia"; where did Beckett get it?
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When the Athenian city-state called its constitution an isonomy or the Romans spoke of the civitas as their form of government, they had in mind another concept of power, which did not rely upon the command-obedience relationship.
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She was a genuine democrat; and nothing short of the pure isonomy of the Greeks was tolerated in her political philosophy, though she could not have told what such a word had meant for her life.
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