What does disproportioned mean?
Disproportioned means Badly proportioned; disproportionate..
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/dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃənd/ · adjective
Badly proportioned; disproportionate..
His Lordship might indeed seek to raise his vanity by allusions to the disproportioned marriage he was about forming; but, with no heart to bestow on any of the sex, his affections entombed, how could he come forward, and feel himself entitled to make proposals to any, under other circumstances than those which connected him with Miss Airey?
[…] and that no mortal man can be so innocent as to feel any infliction wholly unmerited and disproportioned […]
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Disproportioned means Badly proportioned; disproportionate..
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His Lordship might indeed seek to raise his vanity by allusions to the disproportioned marriage he was about forming; but, with no heart to bestow on any of the sex, his affections entombed, how could he come forward, and feel himself entitled to make proposals to any, under other circumstances than those which connected him with Miss Airey?
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