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Incommensurate

adjective
1.
Not corresponding in size or degree or extent.





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"Incommensurate" Quotes from Famous Books



... worse defect in a philosophy than that of contradicting our active propensities is to give them no object whatever to press against. A philosophy whose principle is so incommensurate with our most intimate powers as to deny them all {83} relevancy in universal affairs, as to annihilate their motives at one blow, will be even more unpopular than pessimism. Better face the enemy than the eternal Void! This is why materialism will always fail of ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James
... Fortnightly. It was not to my taste, but was done in conformity with strict conscientious scruples. I read what I took in hand, and said what I believed to be true,—always giving to the matter time altogether incommensurate with the pecuniary result to myself. In doing this for the Pall Mall, I fell into great sorrow. A gentleman, whose wife was dear to me as if she were my own sister; was in some trouble as to his conduct in the public ...
— Autobiography of Anthony Trollope • Anthony Trollope


Words linked to "Incommensurate" :   incommensurable, disproportionate, commensurate, unequal


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