Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being equable; continued equality, regularity, or uniformity: as, the equability of the velocity of the blood; the equability of the temperature of the air; equability of temper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity
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- noun A condition of being
equable ;uniformity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In his aspect there was a certain dryness, and, altogether, his vivacity, his ceaselessness, and a kind of equability of tone in his voice, reminded me of what Homer says concerning the old men around Priam, above the gate of Troy, how they "chirped like cicalas on a summer day."
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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And he was a person of moderate temperament and equability.
Perry's Popping-Off Problem Peggy Noonan 2011
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Obama at least seems poised to make some changes in the American equability equation.
Big-Bucks Donors Also Key To Obama's Fundraising Success 2009
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To rule one self is to be moral, to be just and have a sense of equability towards all religions.
Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Poetic Obituaries: A man of equability, handsomeness and charm
Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Yes, war and oppression within and without are necessary to sustain the equability of the warfare state.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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To rule one self is to be moral, to be just and have a sense of equability towards all religions.
A tale of two Centenaries Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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A woman, perhaps fifty, but looking younger, with a face remarkable for placid cheerfulness, and a manner no less remarkable for its quiet expression of equability of temper.
No Thoroughfare 2007
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What he ignored or simply poo-pooed were the real costs, i.e. environmental, stratification, equability, that these polices exploit.
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Thus compressed the mass resumes its equability, and is again at unity with itself, because the fire which was the author of the inequality has retreated; and this departure of the fire is called cooling, and the coming together which follows upon it is termed congealment.
Timaeus 2006
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