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proportionateness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being proportionate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being proportionate.

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  • noun The quality of being proportionate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount

Etymologies

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proportionate +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Lodge, ordered at a first-class London tailor's, with such approximate indications as size, height, and general proportionateness of body could supply.

    Patsy 1887

  • Therewithal the work affects us, throughout, as a dead-level of superlatives; everywhere we have nearly the same boisterous wind of tragical storm-and-stress: so that the effect is much like that of a picture all foreground, with no perspective, no proportionateness of light and shade, to give us distinct impressions.

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • Therewithal the work affects us, throughout, as a dead-level of superlatives; everywhere we have nearly the same boisterous wind of tragical storm-and-stress: so that the effect is much like that of a picture all foreground, with no perspective, no proportionateness of light and shade, to give us distinct impressions.

    Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

  • Lastly, enthusiasm is susceptible of many degrees, (according to the proportionateness of the objects contemplated,) from the highest grandeur of moral and intellectual being, even to madness; but fanaticism is one and the same, and appears different only from the manners and original temperament of the individual.

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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