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† unproˈportionably, adv. Obs. [un-1 11; cf. prec.] Disproportionately.
1558–9Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 62 And now for the upholding of two or three years more of life, to heap unproportionably, I count it madness. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 2 Being duely tempered for generation, and vnproportionably distempered for corruption. 1626Bacon Sylva §360 A Chameleon is a Creature about the Bignesse of an Ordinary Lizard: His Head vnproportionably bigge. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 166 The Gospell too bids us ‘not bee unequally yoaked,’ but what is it to be unproportionably yoaked, if this bee not? 1790Phil. Trans. LXXX. 355 Though nature..may permit a particular species of animal to become so unproportionably numerous. 1819W. S. Rose Lett. fr. N. Italy II. 172 There is, perhaps, no offence which is so unproportionably punished. |