proportionably
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From proportionable + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]proportionably (comparative more proportionably, superlative most proportionably)
- In a proportionable manner; proportionately.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Happy is that man that hath so proportionably directed his estate, as his riches may discharge and supply the same, without care or encombrance to himselfe […].
- 1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, page 79:
- It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.