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Definition
an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else
- The bus, as usual, was quiet when he climbed in—as proportionately quiet, at any rate, as a theatre with dimming house lights.4 — The Laughing Man (87% in)
- All of her work was unsigned—a minor enough fact, but at the time, a disproportionately refreshing one.8 — De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (54% in)
There are no more uses of "proportionate" in Nine Stories.
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