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Webster 1913 Edition
Equally
E′qual-ly
,adv.
In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly;
as,
equally
taxed, furnished, etc.Webster 1828 Edition
Equally
E'QUALLY
,adv.
1.
In equal shares or proportions. The estate is to be equally divided among the heirs.2.
Impartially; with equal justice.Definition 2024
equally
equally
English
Alternative forms
- æqually (archaic)
Adverb
equally (comparative more equally, superlative most equally)
- (manner) In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.
- They shared equally in the spoils.
- (degree) In equal degree or extent; just as.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
- The gas stations are equally far from the highway.
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- (conjunctive) Used to link two or more coordinate elements
- John suffered setbacks at his job. Equally, Frank's business slowed.
Translations
in an equal manner
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