All 3 Uses of
equivalent
in
The House of Mirth
- Her personal fastidiousness had a moral equivalent, and when she made a tour of inspection in her own mind there were certain closed doors she did not open.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- The first two weeks after her return represented to Mrs. Peniston the domestic equivalent of a religious retreat.†
Chpt 1.9
- It certainly simplified life to view it as a perpetual adjustment, a play of party politics, in which every concession had its recognized equivalent: Lily's tired mind was fascinated by this escape from fluctuating ethical estimates into a region of concrete weights and measures.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
-
(equivalent) being equal or essentially equal