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adjective

Equable adj.

Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.

Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; said of the feelings or temper.

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Etymology of 'Equable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Equable" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bob." Jimmy's tone was equable, but he shot Hanson a quick glance. "He was our faro dealer for a while, but he's interested in mines now. He's dead sure. Come to think of it, he's a lot of dead things," he mused; "but don't ever confuse him with a dead one." Delight at his own wit expressed ...

— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

... submontane zone has the most equable and the pleasantest climate in the plains. It has a rainfall of from 30 to 40 inches, five-sevenths or more of which belongs to the monsoon period (June-September). The north-western area has a longer and colder winter and spring. In the end of December and in January ...

— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie

... was no longer ravenous; the advantages she had enjoyed during the absence of her domestic Argus had made her cravings more equable, and she accepted the edible suggestions of the Sepoy with an approach to placid satisfaction that hinted at the ...

— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder

... or less temporary," she commenced in equable tones. "I may find it expedient to make some changes, and I may not. We have an unusual number of new girls this year; and instead of putting them together, it has seemed wisest to mix them with the old girls. You three ...

— Just Patty • Jean Webster

... taken snuff very solemnly, and looked round him with a calm circumspection, fixing his dull eye upon me, and wagging his head, with an equable motion, slowly up and down, ...

— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard

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