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The adverb “equally” functions as a versatile tool in literature, often used to highlight balance, fairness, or similarity across disparate ideas, qualities, or quantities. Philosophers like Kant use it to suggest a kind of limitless potential where all parts share the same capacity ([1]), while literary authors employ it to draw parallels between characters’ attributes or experiences, as seen when Captain Hoseason’s praises are described in tandem with another’s ([2]) or when deep personal emotions are balanced in descriptions of both love and hate ([3]). Historical accounts and legal treatises similarly use “equally” to denote fairness in distribution or identical liability ([4], [5]). Whether emphasizing the uniformity of scientific measurements ([6]) or establishing congruity between the aesthetic and the moral ([7]), “equally” serves as a linguistic hinge that effortlessly connects and balances contrasting elements within a text.
  1. Nevertheless, space is so conceived of, for all parts of space are equally capable of being produced to infinity.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  2. I asked him of the brig (which he declared was the finest ship that sailed) and of Captain Hoseason, in whose praises he was equally loud.
    — from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
  3. She knew his passionate love of beauty and his equally passionate hatred of ugliness; she knew his strength and his weakness.
    — from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
  4. Land in the neighbourhood of a town gives a greater rent than land equally fertile in a distant part of the country.
    — from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  5. The agent and principal at a fraudulent sale shall be equally liable.
    — from Laws by Plato
  6. These diameters are to be divided equally in the middle at the points
    — from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
  7. And this is equally true of the composer, the painter, and the poet.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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