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1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke i. ii. 17 This he that cannot do, must..by mistaking parities for imparities disioyne helpes better vnited.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 55 I thinke that there is a neerer parity of nature betweene the flesh of Fallow-Deere, and of the Red.

1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant i. 33 Argument..from the paritie and likenesse between the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace.

1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea i. iv. 23 Truly there is a paritie of Reason [L. parilis..ratio] also for this.

1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 23 We may inferr by parity of argument.

1734 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous (rev. ed.) iii, in Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. (new ed.) 298 There is..no parity of case between Spirit and Matter.

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 52 I shall now shew a farther parity, between the hebrew language, and the Aboriginal American dialects.

1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 172 By parity of reasoning, that house on which the magpie perches, is in no danger of falling.

1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. xxi. 353 The thought that had been growing with him a positive obsession..began to throb..under this brush of her having, by perfect parity of imagination, the match for it.

1992 M. Jefferson Criminal Law (BNC) 307 By parity of reasoning with Chan Wai Lam v R the accused who deceives the victim into writing a cheque in his favour is not guilty.