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Equality

noun

(pl. equalities)

The quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status.

A state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced. Synonyms: equation, equivalence, par.

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... tough and elastic enough to endure the wear and strain of action. As it was, some of the most renowned men in the Senate were known to have been his intimates at college, and he still met and conversed with them on terms of equality. ...

— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

... better elements of national life has indicated the wisdom of the founders and given new hope to their descendants. Under this Constitution our people long ago made themselves safe against danger from without and secured for their mariners and flag equality of rights on all the seas. Under this Constitution twenty-five States have been added to the Union, with constitutions and laws, framed and enforced by their own citizens, to secure the manifold blessings ...

— Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. VIII.: James A. Garfield • James D. Richardson

... becoming restless in their close confinement. Five of them were negroes. Brown's disciples made no objections to living, eating and sleeping with these blacks. Such equality was one of the cardinal ...

— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon

... satisfied himself as to the value of the territory, and offered them the full price. Big Thunder, a son of the Little Crow, replied that the Sioux were a great nation, and could not, like a trader, ask a price and then take less: and, then to illustrate the equality of dignity, between the high contracting parties, he used a figure, which struck us as eminently beautiful—'the children of our white parent are very many, they possess all the country from the rising of the sun to noon-day:—the ...

— Great Indian Chief of the West - Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk • Benjamin Drake

... face grew brighter at the sight of him, and presently he had smoothed the frown quite away. Again he realized that the murder of Lord Loudwater had had a softening effect on her. Before it they had been much more on equality; now she rather clung to him. He found it pleasing, much more the natural attitude of a woman towards a man of his imagination and knowledge of life. He was properly ...

— The Loudwater Mystery • Edgar Jepson

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