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proportionable

[ pruh-pawr-shuh-nuh-buhl, -pohr- ]

adjective

  1. being in due proportion; proportional.


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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·ǰtDz··i·ٲ ·ǰtDz···Ա noun
  • ·ǰtDz·· adverb
  • ԴDzp·ǰtDz·· adjective
  • ܲp·ǰtDz·· adjective
  • un·ǰtDz·· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of proportionable1

1350–1400; Middle English proporcionable < Late Latin ōǰپō. See proportion, -able
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Example Sentences

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The word derives from the Latin meaning “due mixture,” and one Oxford English Dictionary definition calls it “a moderate and proportionable mixture of elements in a compound.”

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The number of children attending the schools is doubtless proportionably great.

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France has, and ought to have, a great weight with America and 371 Holland, but other powers might have proportionable weight if they would have proportional merit.

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No appointment to office of any kind was made, except in consideration of a proportionable sum paid down into her own coffers.

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One great ground of confidence and support has, indeed, been struck from under my feet; but I have made it up to myself by proportionable pertinacity of opinion.

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