All 3 Uses
proportional
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- Undoubtedly, in this case, what is true for one is truer still for a thousand, as a large house is not proportionally more expensive than a small one, since one roof may cover, one cellar underlie, and one wall separate several apartments.†
Chpt 1 *proportionally = in a manner that is appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
- Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader; and as for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles?†
Chpt 3
- Sometimes I heard four or five at once in different parts of the wood, by accident one a bar behind another, and so near me that I distinguished not only the cluck after each note, but often that singular buzzing sound like a fly in a spider's web, only proportionally louder.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(proportional) appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)