Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Equality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Equality.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun social and political equality
Etymologies
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Examples
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We learned the principles of liberty, egality, fraternity and secularism.
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We learned the principles of liberty, egality, fraternity and secularism.
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The injuction to "render to Caesar" was a command to eschew the material world and to pursue a spiritual life that is devoted to piety and charity, embraces egality and justice, and pursues peace and harmony.
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To peace, progress, and egality we Democrats invite
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We need to change our economic views, such that in a finite world with an increasing population, the distribution of goods and services trends towards egality.
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Cultural differences are normally experienced when we go abroad - at least here in homogenous, social democratic egality-focused Volda, Norway.
thinking with my fingers Torill 2002
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Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute towards egality and justice, the foundation stones for a sound democracy.
Commencement Address At American University Aung San Suu Kyi 1997
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He wanted to recapture the spirit which "made successive generations of the Republic believe in egality and progress."
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A regular increase in such tax-financed government spending, under systems hard to "game" by the unworthy, was considered a moral imperative-a sort of egality-promoting national dividend-so long as growth of such spending was kept well below the growth rate of the country's GDP per person.
Slate Magazine Charles Munger 2010
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I've been broadly supportive of our tax policy in the past, and the theme that has run through our proposals of establishing a greater degree of egality has been one that I can approve of.
Liberal Bureaucracy 2009
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