unproportionablyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnprəˈpɔːʃn̩əbli/, /(ˌ)ʌnprəˈpɔːʃnəbli/, U.S. /ˌənprəˈpɔrʃənəbli/, /ˌənpərˈpɔrʃənəbli/ Now rare.
In a manner or to a degree that is not proportionable; disproportionately.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adverb] > disproportionately
unproportionably1559
disproportionably1608
overproportionately1676
disproportionatelya1682
disproportionally1755
unproportionally1819
unproportionately1848
1559 Abp. M. Parker Let. 1 Mar. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 62 And now for the upholding of two or three years more of life, to heap unproportionably, I count it madness.
1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course i. f. 2 Being duely tempered for generation, and vnproportionably distempered for corruption.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §360 A Chameleon is a Creature about the Bignesse of an Ordinary Lizard: His Head vnproportionably bigge.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 166 The Gospell too bids us ‘not bee unequally yoaked’, but what is it to be unproportionably yoaked, if this bee not?
1703 tr. C. de Renneville Coll. Voy. Dutch E.-India Company 3 These Birds are so heavy, and their Body is so unproportionably big, in respect to their Wings, which are but very little.
1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 355 Nature..may permit a particular species of animal to become so unproportionably numerous.
1819 W. S. Rose Lett. from N. Italy II. 172 There is, perhaps, no offence which is so unproportionably punished.
1898 Flaming Sword 16 Dec. 5/2 The woman is not tall, but unproportionably large.
1993 N. Nicolaus in H. Reuter Aseptic Processing of Foods ii. 61 In the case of..aseptic packaging the multiple-stream conception is from the point of costs unproportionably high.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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