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▪ I. disproportion, n.|dɪsprəˈpɔəʃən|
[f. dis- 9 + proportion: perh. a. F. disproportion (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Want of proportion in number, quantity, size, etc.; lack of symmetry or due relation of quantity or number between things or parts of the same thing; the condition of being out of proportion.
1555Eden Decades 190 The disproportion that they haue to all other beasts. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxii. 214 Let there be no great disproportion in age. a1656Bp. Hall in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxliv. 3 The disproportion betwixt us and them [gnats] is but finite. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 196. ⁋3 The disproportion will always be great between expectation and enjoyment. 1878Masque Poets 208 Evil perhaps being nothing more nor less Than good in disproportion or excess. 1880Dixon Windsor III. xxxiii. 325 A sense of disproportion lifts men into mirth.
b. with a and pl.: An example of this; something out of proportion.
1597Daniel Civ. Wars i. xxxviii, Disproportions harmony do break. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 233 Foule disproportions, Thoughts vnnaturall. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 27 Reasoning I oft admire, How Nature wise and frugal could commit Such disproportions. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 672 A leg too long, or some other disproportion.
▪ II. disproˈportion, v.
[f. the n. Cf. F. disproportionner.]
trans. To render or make out of due proportion.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 160 Shee did corrupt frayle Nature with some Bribe..To shape my Legges of an vnequall size, To dis-proportion me in euery part. a1631Donne Lett. (1651) 7 Nothing disproportions us..as murmuring. 1838Lytton Alice xi. viii, Statutes that disproportion punishment to crime. 1864W. Fairbairn in Reader 27 Feb. 270/1 It is even possible so to disproportion the top and bottom areas of a wrought-iron girder..as to cause it to yield with little more than half the ultimate strain. |