Usage examples (5)

• Lodge, ordered at a first-class London tailor's, with such approximate indications as size, height, and general proportionateness of body could supply.
• Lastly, enthusiasm is susceptible of many degrees, (according to the proportionateness of the objects contemplated,) from the highest grandeur of moral and intellectual...
• Therewithal the work affects us, throughout, as a dead-level of superlatives; everywhere we have nearly the same boisterous wind of tragical storm-and-stress: so that the...
• I should greatly prefer the more appropriate, though scholastic and uncouth, words homogeneity, proportionateness, and totality of interest, -- expressions, which...