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Definition
appropriate in size, amount, or degree
- Indeed, he had had little opportunity to be anything else, and he now seemed pleased out of all proportion at this slight notice from his master.p. 62.7
proportion = appropriate amount
- Two and a half stories it stood, gracefully proportioned, with leaded glass windows and clapboards weathered to a silvery gray.p. 30.1
proportioned = dimensioned (relative sizes)
There are no more uses of "proportion" in The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
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