The Only Use of "commensurate" in "The Great Gatsby"

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The Only Use

commensurate
in
The Great Gatsby
(Edited)

...for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
p. 180.5

commensurate = comparable in scope

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(1) (commensurate)
appropriate in proportion to
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)