All 4 Uses of
proportionate
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.†
Chpt 1-3
- When, in the writings of the later poets, Jove and his family are found to have moved from their cramped quarters on the peak of Olympus into the wide sky above it, their words show a proportionate increase of arrogance and reserve.†
Chpt 10-12
- This move was unexpected, and proportionately disconcerting.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- Capacity for intense feeling is proportionate to the general intensity of the nature, and perhaps in all Fanny's sufferings, much greater relatively to her strength, there never was a time she suffered in an absolute sense what Bathsheba suffered now.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(proportionate) an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else