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▪ I. inequitable, a.1|ɪnˈɛkwɪtəb(ə)l|
[f. in-3 + equitable: cf. F. inéquitable.]
Not equitable; characterized by want of equity or fairness; unfair, unjust.
1667Decay Chr. Piety 64 The way of Process men take in this affair is so inequitable as certainly presages the partiality of the sentence. 1753Johnson Adventurer No. 62 ⁋8 Nothing is more inequitable than that one man should suffer for the crimes of another. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 273 A spiritual pride, making them censorious, inequitable, turning everything to the worst side. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 252 The proportions seemed not inequitable. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. vii. i. (1881) 306 The inequitable division of wealth.
Hence inˈequitably adv., in an inequitable manner, unfairly, unjustly.
1842De Quincey Cicero Wks. 1857 VII. 207 As a commander-in-chief, Pompey was known to have been inequitably fortunate. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §126 It sometimes happens that an exception, which prima facie seems just enough, will yet bear inequitably upon the pursuer.
▪ II. † iˈnequitable, a.2 Obs. rare—0.
[ad. L. inequitābil-is, f. in- (in-3) + equitābil-is ridable, f. equitā-re: see next.]
That cannot be ridden through.
1623Cockeram, Inequitable, not to bee rid through. Hence in Blount, Phillips, etc. |