† improportionn.
Obsolete.
Want of proportion, disproportion.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > quality of being disproportionate
distemperance1340
unproportionatenessa1398
improportionc1450
inequalitya1538
disproportion1555
distemperment1582
misproportionateness1587
misproportion1596
unproportionableness1610
distemper1612
unproportiona1626
disproportionality1642
disproportionatedness1647
incommensuration1650
disproportionableness1651
overproportion1666
disproportionateness1668
incommensurateness1727
unproportionality1818
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 1675 Yif..Ony evil humours Of qualitees gendre by in-proporcyon In the hed.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iii. iii. 91 If there be but one eye..out of square..the first thing almost we marke, is the improportion or disquaring of that part.
1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 12 The seeming improportion of Infinite and Eternal Punishments to Finite Transgressions.
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