Both Uses of
proportionate
in
The House of Mirth
- The object of the association was to provide comfortable lodgings, with a reading-room and other modest distractions, where young women of the class employed in down town offices might find a home when out of work, or in need of rest, and the first year's financial report showed so deplorably small a balance that Miss Farish, who was convinced of the urgency of the work, felt proportionately discouraged by the small amount of interest it aroused.†
Chpt 1.10
- The sight filled Lily with such surprise that she felt that Bertha, at least, must read its meaning in her look, and she was proportionately disconcerted by the blankness of the look returned.†
Chpt 2.2 *
Definition:
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(proportionate) an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else