Do we say equivalence or equivalency

equivalence 33 occurrences

That want of taste for one enjoyment is supplied by the pleasures of some other, may be fairly allowed; but the compensations of sickness I have never found near to equivalence, and the transports of recovery only prove the intenseness of the pain.

I had arranged them thus for convenience some years ago, and I now find they express the equivalence of the two great factors of Style-Intelligence and Sensibility.

The establishment of correlation and equivalence between the forces of the outer and the inner worlds serves to assimilate either to the other, according as we set out with one or the other.

Moreover, indefiniteness of equivalence among the groups is common to those which we know have been evolved, and to those supposed in the volume before us to have been evolved.

equivalence; equipollence^, equipoise, equilibrium, equiponderance^; par, quits, a wash; not a pin to choose; distinction without a difference, six of one and half a dozen of the other; tweedle dee and tweedle dum

My resolution, helped by the equivalence of dangers, stoutly prevailed, and I said, "No." "No! I am surprised.

Within the city he has precedence next to the sovereign and before the royal family; elsewhere he ranks as an earl, thus indicating the equivalence of the city to a county, and with like significance he is lord lieutenant of the city and justice of the peace.

The following example shows the same equivalence: "This refers to the last mentioned or nearer thing, that to the first mentioned or more distant thing.

18.Because the possessive case of a noun or pronoun is usually equivalent in meaning to the preposition of and the objective case, some grammarians, mistaking this equivalence of meaning for sameness of case, have asserted that all our possessives have a double form.

But it should be remembered that equivalence of meaning is not sameness of grammatical construction; and, even if the construction be the same, to parse other equivalent words, is not really to parse the text that is given.

And how can a needless "auxiliary" be "understood," on the principle of equivalence, where, by awkwardly changing a mood or tense, it only helps some grammatical theorist to convert good English into bad, or to pervert a text?

The phrases above may all be right, or all be wrong, according to the correctness or incorrectness of their application: when each is used as best it may be, there is no exact equivalence.

This last solution supposes the phrase, "waiting a long time," or at least the participle waiting, to be a noun; for, upon the author's principle of equivalence, "they had waited," will otherwise be a "sentential" participlea thing however as good and as classical as the other! OBS.

For if we suppose this equivalence to prove such a pronoun to be something more than the possessive case, as do some grammarians, we must suppose the same thing respecting the possessive case of a noun, whenever the relation of ownership or possession is simply affirmed or denied with such a noun put last: as, "For all things are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's."1

The principal instances of regular equivalence between infinitives and participles, may be reduced to the following heads: 1.

36.On several occasions, as in the tenth and twelfth observations on Rule 4th, and in certain parts of the present series, some notice has been taken of the equivalence or difference of meaning, real or supposed, between the construction of the possessive, and that of an other case, before the participle; or between the participial and the substantive use of words in ing.

And as to the equivalence spoken of in the same rule, such an expression as, "He did not say nothing," is in fact only a vulgar solecism, take it as you will; whether for, "He did not say anything," or for, "He did say something."

Enumeration of numbers, see Addition Epicene nouns, see Generic Names Epithets, new compound, poets frequently form Equivalence, the argument of, has often led into errors Equivocal, or ambiguous construc.

mood; heads of regular equivalence how compares with the Lat.

noun, distinction between, with respect to governm. Participle in ing, multiplied uses of, lawful and forced, illustrated, equivalence of do.

LOWTH and his followers, whose doctrine BROWN canvasses, also, WEBSTER'S, WILSON'S, MURRAY'S Poss. case, its equivalence to of and the objective, not a sameness of case, (in oppos.

I do not deny that the phrase "is worth" is a just version of the verb valet; but this equivalence in import, is no proof at all that worth is a verb.

There is a complete lack of economic equivalence in the relation of parent and child in early years.

The end, too, which democracy seeks is not a sameness of specific results, but rather an equivalence; and its duty is satisfied if the child of its rule finds such development as was possible to him, has a free course, and cannot charge his deficiency to social interference and the restriction of established law.

This fusion is accomplished in the secondary stage, for the continuous action of the State, by representation, technically; but, in its primary stage and original validity, by universal suffrage; for the characteristic trait of democracy is that in constituting this authority, which is social as opposed to personal freedom,personal freedom existing in its social form,it includes every unit of will, and gives to each equivalence.

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