equally

comparative more equally · superlative most equally · alternative archaic æqually

1. mannerIn an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly.

   All citizens are equally taxed.

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   The pie was divided equally among the guests.

   They shared equally in the spoils.

   And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d: And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes, Share equally the gold that bought their liues, And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii

   You have to give them credit, rarely does a character appeal equally to four-year-old children and middle-aged aunts posting tepid jokes and fake Oscar Wilde quotes on their timelines.

   2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN

2. degreeIn equal degree or extent; just as.

   The gas stations are equally far from the highway.

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   The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59

3. conjunctiveUsed to link two or more coordinate elements

   John suffered setbacks at his job. Equally, Frank's business slowed.