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equal·ly (ē′kwəl ē)

adverb

in an equal manner; in or to an equal extent or degree; uniformly, impartially, etc.

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equally

modif.

evenly, uniformly, coequally, symmetrically, proportionately, correspondingly, coordinately, equivalently, identically, on a level, both, either … or, impartially, justly, fairly, equitably, across the board, on even terms, dispassionately, as well as, without distinction, to the same degree, the same for one as for another, ""with malice towards none, '' fifty-fifty*, even-steven*. *

Antonyms unequally, unfairly*, unevenly.


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It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. The ashes of an oak in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell†and when a whirlwind hathblownthedustofthechurchyard intothe church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce,This is the Patrician, this the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebeian bran.

-Donne,John

That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

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