Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Equability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being equable.
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- noun The state or quality of being
equable .
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Examples
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And she had deliberately permeated her house with her personal atmosphere of coolness, and freshness, and equableness.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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She would have taken any loss to herself with an amazing equableness — some qualms, of course, but not many — because her vanity and sense of charm would have made her look forward to something better or as good.
The Titan 2004
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And she had deliberately permeated her house with her personal atmosphere of coolness, and freshness, and equableness.
Chapter 4 1913
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She would have taken any loss to herself with an amazing equableness -- some qualms, of course, but not many -- because her vanity and sense of charm would have made her look forward to something better or as good.
The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908
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He took to this life with the same equableness of mind that he accepted the companions of hardship and drudgery on the open road.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905
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A temperamental equableness and a disciplined character gave to her finely modelled face an inward tranquillity which was a refuge to their ardent natures.
Roads from Rome 1901
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And she is a most pleasant servant, always so polite and obliging, with/[Page 316]/an equableness of temper rare at fifty, and very soothing for the rest of us, - who are anything but equable!
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I could understand the equableness of the temperature of the mountain at some yards from the surface of the ground, causing the cantina to feel cool in summer and warm in winter, but I was not prepared for the strength and iciness of the cold current that came from the gallery.
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The climate of Warm Springs is unsurpassed in the country, for salubrity and equableness, perpetually free from fogs or dampness, and of rare temperature.
The Warm Springs, Madison County, Western North Carolina. Howerton & Klein, Proprietors. Hot, Warm, Tepid and Cold Baths W. H. Howerton 1880
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It has the mildest Winters in proportion to the coolness of its Summers, and a general equableness quite remarkable.
The Warm Springs, Madison County, Western North Carolina. Howerton & Klein, Proprietors. Hot, Warm, Tepid and Cold Baths W. H. Howerton 1880
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