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Equability

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eq·ua·ble  (kw-bl, kw-)
adj.
1.
a. Unvarying; steady.
b. Free from extremes.
2. Not easily disturbed; serene: an equable temper.
[Latin aequbilis, from aequre, to make even, from aequus, even, level.]
equa·bili·ty, equa·ble·ness n.
equa·bly adv.


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A remarkable fact, characteristic of the country west of the Rocky Mountains, is the mildness and equability of the climate.
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Crimsworth, that gentleman, who himself frequented no place of worship, and owned no God but Mammon, turned the information into a weapon of attack against the equability of my temper.
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His delightful equability of temper made many persons say,--
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