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 .
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- noun the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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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