English

Adverb

proportionably ‎(comparative more proportionably, superlative most proportionably)

1. In a proportionable manner; proportionately.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.40:

     Happy is that man that hath so proportionably directed his estate, as his riches may discharge and supply the same, without care or encombrance to himselfe […].

   • 1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, p.79:

     It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.