proportion
noun
comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
was proportioning
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past progressiveof proportion.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"No, my dear Barbara," he replied with irony, looking up from a series of powders he was proportioning with his jack-knife on a piece of newspaper; "were they drowned?"
From Memories of a Musical Life by Mason, William
