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Definition of Proportionateness
1. Noun. The relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount.
Generic synonyms: Proportionality
Derivative terms: Commensurate, Correspondent, Proportionate, Proportionate, Proportionate
Definition of Proportionateness
1. n. The quality or state of being proportionate.
Definition of Proportionateness
1. Noun. The quality of being proportionate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proportionateness
Literary usage of Proportionateness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism by William Tenney Brewster (1907)
"On the whole, however, the effect seems to be produced by a peculiar proportionateness,
in each instance, of the mind to the tasks which it undertakes, ..."
2. Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism: Chosen and Ed., with an by William Tenney Brewster (1907)
"On the whole, however, the effect seems to be produced by a peculiar proportionateness,
in each instance, of the mind to the tasks which it undertakes, ..."
3. The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot by Walter Bagehot, Russell Barrington (1915)
"On the whole, however, the effect seems to be produced by a peculiar proportionateness,
in each instance, of the mind to the tasks which it undertakes, ..."
4. Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt (1919)
"If we moderns, to repeat Nietzsche, are unable to attain proportionateness it is
because "our itching is really the itching for the infinite, ..."
5. Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt (1919)
"If we moderns, to repeat Nietzsche, are unable to attain proportionateness it is
because "our itching is really the itching for the infinite, ..."
6. Final Report, June 2, 1916 by Edward Murray Bassett (1916)
"A classification based on proportionateness of means to ends is recognized in
practically all building regulations. General maximum height regulations, ..."
7. A Treatise on Justification =: Or the Disputatio de Justitia Habituali Et by John Davenant (1846)
"Works which are by actual worthiness meritorious of life eternal, have an equality
or proportionateness to such a reward; as a fair price has to the thing ..."
8. Final Report, June 2, 1916 by Edward Murray Bassett, New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate (1916)
"A classification based on proportionateness of means to ends is recognized in
practically all building regulations. General maximum height regulations, ..."
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