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English
Etymology
From proportionable + -ly.
Adverb
proportionably (comparative more proportionably, superlative most proportionably)
- In a proportionable manner; proportionately.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:Happy is that man that hath so proportionably directed his estate, as his riches may discharge and supply the same, without care or encombrance to himselfe […].
1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, page 79:It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.