Literary notes about Commensurate (AI summary)
Writers often deploy "commensurate" to denote that one element—be it a measure, quality, or outcome—is appropriately matched or proportional to another. In some works, the term is used to assert that a reward or salary should mirror the service rendered or effort expended ([1], [2]), while in other texts it describes a scale or magnitude that corresponds precisely to physical dimensions or abstract ideals ([3], [4]). It also appears in moral and philosophical discussions, where actions, virtues, or sufferings are weighed and measured against each other in terms of equivalence or adequacy ([5], [6]). In this way, "commensurate" functions as a versatile tool for writers to assert proportionality and justified comparison across a wide range of contexts.
- Such an officer of the law had never been known; his reward should be commensurate with the service he had rendered.
— from From Boniface to Bank Burglar; Or, The Price of Persecution How a Successful Business Man, Through the Miscarriage of Justice, Became a Notorious Bank Looter by George M. (George Miles) White - Says that he has recognized for some little time that I have not had a salary commensurate with my services.
— from Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday - The assembling-shops in connection with the railroad were built on a commensurate scale.
— from Our Army at the Front by Heywood Broun - 4. Upon the columns lay the main beams, fastened together, to a height commensurate with the requirements of the size of the building.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio - For the term in the common use of language is only to a certain extent commensurate with moral good and evil.
— from Philebus by Plato - But is not the fact an alarming proof of the danger resulting from a government which does not possess regular powers commensurate to its objects?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
