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Definition of Proportionably
1. adv. Proportionally.
Definition of Proportionably
1. Adverb. In a proportionable manner; proportionately. ¹
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Definition of Proportionably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proportionably
Literary usage of Proportionably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1765)
"... every fuch pound weight, 3 Geo. ic 7. and proportionably for greater or leffer
quantities of tea. Andwhere- as by an ail made in the third year of your ..."
2. History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the by Theodore Dwight (1833)
"... ing it has been more than proportionably augmented, from the difficulty, if
not the impossibility, of preserving the same degree of system in the ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"The length of the fakes must not exceed two yards; as the rope, when laid in
fakes of greater length, is likely to be broken by the proportionably increased ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"He may feel the matter very warmly as a Scotchman ; I can only have a very general,
and therefore proportionably faint interest in the subject ; but in ..."
5. Herodotus by Herodotus, William Beloe (1830)
"Their idea is, that the veins of the animal being thus inflated, the dugs are
proportionably filled. ..."
6. The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 by Great Britain (1764)
"tion, and fo proportionably for a greater or leffer quantity. ... and no longer,
fifteen without any deduction, and fo proportionably for any greater pounds ..."
7. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"France, amidst all her past success, declined proportionably in the opinion of
Europe, and has never since arrogated the same rank, as a Naval Power. ..."
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