proportionately

English

Etymology

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English proportionate

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English proportionately

From proportionate + -ly.

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Adverb

proportionately (comparative more proportionately, superlative most proportionately)

1. In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.
   • 1997, Jens Bangsbo, Thomas Reilly, Mike Hughes, Science and Football III: Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Science:

     During this analysis, it became apparent that the home team seemed to be receiving proportionately greater generosity from the referee than the away team.

   • 2009, Paul S. Johnson, Stephen R. Shifley, Robert Rogers, The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks, 2nd edition, page 245:

     Whereas numbers of trees and basal areas of all species increased between 1957 and 1972, the 1972—1977 timber harvest reduced the number of large black and scarlet oaks proportionately more than other species.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “proportionately”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “proportionately”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.