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Definition of Proportionately

1. Adverb. To a proportionate degree. "Your salary will rise proportionately to your workload"

2. Adverb. In proportion. "The height of this wall must be reduced proportionately to give the room pleasant dimensions"

3. Adverb. In proportion.

Definition of Proportionately

1. adv. In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.

Definition of Proportionately

1. Adverb. In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally. ¹

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Definition of Proportionately

1. [adv]

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Literary usage of Proportionately

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1. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"... affects what the artist sees, and if it is true that he draws what he sees, does this not mean that his drawing tends to be proportionately faulty ? ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"More of Stephen Smith and less of the thousand and one names referred to would have proportionately increased the value of the work. PSC ART. ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... for which full annual premiums have been paid, and in the event of any indebtedness against this policy these values will be reduced proportionately. ..."

4. The Ricardian Rent Theory in Early American Economics by John Roscoe Turner (1921)
"On rent," he presents two arguments: (a) Land is capital; rents grow proportionately less; (b) The natural order of cultivation is from poor land to rich. ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"For the same reason, and proportionately, a thousand small sects have failed, whose names still encumber the pages of church history, but whose tenets ..."

6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1893)
"The tubercles proportionately smaller and the hairs longer than in the full grown larva. Larva (Fig. 1, b), (last stage) length, 2 cm.; head, diameter, ..."

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