All 9 Uses of
proportionate
in
Middlemarch
- No nature could be less suspicious than hers: when she was a child she believed in the gratitude of wasps and the honorable susceptibility of sparrows, and was proportionately indignant when their baseness was made manifest.†
Chpt 2 *
- Since it occurred, a change had come over Fred's sky, which altered his view of the distance, and was the reason why his uncle Featherstone's present of money was of importance enough to make his color come and go, first with a too definite expectation, and afterwards with a proportionate disappointment.†
Chpt 3
- On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.†
Chpt 3
- Mr. Casaubon made no objection beyond a passing remark that the sum might be disproportionate in relation to other good objects, but when Dorothea in her ignorance resisted that suggestion, he acquiesced.†
Chpt 5
- But you observe that the principle on which my selection is made, is to give adequate, and not disproportionate illustration to each of the theses enumerated in my introduction, as at present sketched.†
Chpt 5
- Mr. Garth had been so kind and encouraging at the beginning of their interview, that gratitude and hopefulness had been at a high pitch, and the downfall was proportionate.†
Chpt 6
- For Bulstrode shrank from a direct lie with an intensity disproportionate to the number of his more indirect misdeeds.†
Chpt 7
- With regard to Stone Court, since Bulstrode wished to retain his hold on the stock, and to have an arrangement by which he himself could, if he chose, resume his favorite recreation of superintendence, Caleb had advised him not to trust to a mere bailiff, but to let the land, stock, and implements yearly, and take a proportionate share of the proceeds.†
Chpt 7
- His departure had been a proportionate disappointment, and had sadly increased her weariness of Middlemarch; but at first she had the alternative dream of pleasures in store from her intercourse with the family at Quallingham.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(proportionate) an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else