Lexic.us

Definition of Egality

1. Noun. Social and political equality. "Egality represents an extreme leveling of society"

Definition of Egality

1. n. Equality.

Definition of Egality

1. Noun. (obsolete) Equality. (defdate 14th-19th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Egality

1. equality [n EGALITIES] - See also: equality

Lexicographical Neighbors of Egality

Literary usage of Egality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"Dicr.9i. may be without deed; yet a rent granted for egality (60) of the same (58) See ant. 153 a. note 1. (p. 485. n. the 29 C. 2. c. ..."

2. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"... is developed under hereditary kings, ends in a sort of egality- republic, centralised, administrative, under dynasties exposed to revolution. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The answer to this position s that, in the state of the pleadings and evidence, we are not at liberty to pass upon the egality of this order or to determine ..."

4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"egality (obs. or French), par (chiefly in "on a par"), level; spec, match, equivalence, ..."

5. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"But albeit an exchange for lands in the same county may be without deed ; yet a rent granted for egality (5) of the same exchange cannot be without deed. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... a enough to cite but one illustration, pointed out again and again in the texts : while the one admitted the ;egality of slavery, the other denied it. ..."

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