Both Uses of
equivalent
in
War and Peace
- The second method is to consider the actions of some one man—a king or a commander—as equivalent to the sum of many individual wills; whereas the sum of individual wills is never expressed by the activity of a single historic personage.†
Chpt 11
- To give that terrible order seemed to him equivalent to resigning the command of the army.†
Chpt 11 *
Definition:
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(equivalent) being equal or essentially equal