1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. 672. Too much increase and unproportionable growth … procureth the change and ruine of commonwealthes.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 39. The roofe is not to be thought vnproportionable.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, V. xi. 163. To give a thing and take a thing is unproportionable with his [sc. God’s] proceedings.
1697. C. Leslie, Snake in Grass (ed. 2), Advert. The Preface was an Eye-Sore, because of its Length, unproportionable to the Book.
1704. N. N., trans. Boccalini’s’ Advts. from Parnass., III. 255. Some of her limbs swell to an unproportionable Bulk.
1766. Compl. Farmer, s.v. Surveying, If you protract … you will put your closes into unproportionable shapes.
Hence † Unproportionableness. Obs.
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 74. This unproportionableness of the Creators dealing with man. Ibid. (1659), Tears Ch., 586. The unproportionableness of any other Church-government than a right Episcopacy to the temper of England.
