Vocabulary Word
Word: parity
Definition: equality; close resemblance; CF. disparate
Definition: equality; close resemblance; CF. disparate
Sentences Containing 'parity'
The extraordinary revenue, too, which every province affords to the public in time of war, ought, from parity of reason, to bear the same proportion to the extraordinary revenue of the whole empire, which its ordinary revenue does in time of peace.
“As to learning, government, arts, manufactures, and the like,” my master confessed, “he could find little or no resemblance between the _Yahoos_ of that country and those in ours; for he only meant to observe what parity there was in our natures.
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