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Equitable   /ˈɛkwətəbəl/  /ˈɛkwɪtəbəl/   Listen
Equitable

adjective
1.
Fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience.  Synonym: just.  "An equitable distribution of gifts among the children"






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"Equitable" Quotes from Famous Books



... lands, private and public, in the neighboring settlements. His report is now communicated, that the Legislature may judge how far its interposition is necessary to quiet the legal titles, confirm the equitable, to remove the past and prevent future intrusions which have neither law ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 4) of Volume 1: Thomas Jefferson • Edited by James D. Richardson

... that the most scrupulous person need not have hesitated in asserting an unquestioned legal and equitable claim simply because it had lain a certain number of years in abeyance. But before the Lady could make up her mind to accept her good fortune she had been kept awake many nights in doubt and inward debate whether she should avail herself of her rights. If it had been private property, ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... Dr Thirlwall is a great improvement on its predecessor. It is written with profounder learning, and a more equitable spirit; and is indeed pre-eminently distinguished by the calmness, candour, and judge-like serenity that pervades it. In a style always lucid in disquisition, and always elegant in narrative, he appears to be solely anxious to communicate the fair result, whatever it ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

... trying something a new and different way. At their age, they were content to take the easiest and the simplest way of doing what they thought to be Right. Furthermore, they had lived long enough to know that no equitable decision can be made by listening to only ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

... Manila and its suburbs (I thus conclude from expressions contained in former correspondence and from my appreciation of your intellectual attainments), you base your proposition—a joint occupation—upon supposed equitable grounds, referring to the sacrifices your troops have made and the assistance they have rendered the American forces in the capture of Manila. It is well known they have made personal sacrifices, ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester


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