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disproportion

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1. disproportion - Noun

2. disproportion - Verb

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Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.

Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.

To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. Charles Baudelaire

Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty. Eugène Delacroix

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. Franz Kafka

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. Victor Hugo

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. Napoleon Bonaparte

The Holders of one species of property have thrown a disproportion of taxes on the holders of another species. The lesson we are to draw from the whole is that where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. James Madison

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