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词汇 proportionable
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Definition of proportionable in English:

proportionable

adjective prəˈpɔːʃ(ə)nəb(ə)lprəˈpɔrʃənəb(ə)l
  • archaic term for proportional
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A worm of proportionable enormity had bored a hole in the shell.
    • The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.
    • In concluding their report, the consultants stated the inescapable reality was that, for the foreseeable future, car travel will continue to grow in both absolute and proportionable terms.
    • Credit fell to the ground, mutual confidence entirely ceased, and the fall of the price of raw produce, as it was chiefly occasioned by a rise in the value of money, was accompanied by a proportionable increase of rent.
    • If a gentleman cuts canals and erects terraces in his garden, their intrinsic value will be proportionable to the land and labor; but the price in reality will not always follow this proportion.

Derivatives

  • proportionably

  • adverb prəˈpɔːʃ(ə)nəbliprəˈpɔrʃ(ə)nəbli
    • In like manner, all the graces of the Spirit grow proportionably, by the special influences of divine grace.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And if the knowledge of him be imperfect, the happiness of the creature must be proportionably imperfect.
      • Which leads me to one remark: That the number in the world is proportionably very small.
      • As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature; that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.
      • But wherever you depart, in the least, from the similarity of the cases, you diminish proportionably the evidence; and may at last bring it to a very weak analogy, which is confessedly liable to error and uncertainty.

Definition of proportionable in US English:

proportionable

adjectiveprəˈpôrSHənəb(ə)lprəˈpɔrʃənəb(ə)l
  • archaic term for proportional
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A worm of proportionable enormity had bored a hole in the shell.
    • Credit fell to the ground, mutual confidence entirely ceased, and the fall of the price of raw produce, as it was chiefly occasioned by a rise in the value of money, was accompanied by a proportionable increase of rent.
    • In concluding their report, the consultants stated the inescapable reality was that, for the foreseeable future, car travel will continue to grow in both absolute and proportionable terms.
    • If a gentleman cuts canals and erects terraces in his garden, their intrinsic value will be proportionable to the land and labor; but the price in reality will not always follow this proportion.
    • The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.
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