disproˈportionateness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being out of proportion.
| 1668 H. More Div. Dial. ii. xviii. (1713) 147 The Incongruity and Disproportionateness of the Use of them. 1819 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 258 It would argue a disproportionateness, a want of balance. 1874 Farrar Christ x. 119 Every one must have been struck..with the apparent disproportionateness between the cause and the effect. |