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† unproˈportionable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Disproportionate. Also const. to, or (rarely) with. (Common in 17th c.)
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 672 Too much increase and unproportionable growth..procureth the change and ruine of commonwealthes. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 39 The roofe is not to be thought vnproportionable. 1650Fuller Pisgah v. xi. 163 To give a thing and take a thing is unproportionable with his [sc. God's] proceedings. 1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) Advert., The Preface was an Eye-Sore, because of its Length, unproportionable to the Book. 1704N. N. tr. Boccalini's Advts. from Parnass. III. 255 Some of her limbs swell to an unproportionable Bulk. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Surveying, If you protract.., you will put your closes into unproportionable shapes.
Hence † unproˈportionableness. Obs.
1653Gauden Hierasp. 74 This unproportionableness of the Creators dealing with man. 1659― Tears Ch. 586 The unproportionableness of any other Church-government than a right Episcopacy to the temper of England. |