equitable

Word Origin & History

1640s, from French équitable (16c.), from équité (see equity). Related: Equitably.

Not if the tenure of power is dependent upon its equitable administration.

Some one answered that "was an equitable statement of the case."

Be of good courage, Mr. Fielding is a just and equitable magistrate.

Early in the day, these architects had made an equitable division of their duties.

That's a perfectly fair and equitable division of responsibility.

For instance: An equitable division can be made between all the plunderers.

If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

My readers are by this time familiar with the condition of affairs in the Equitable.

It is a most equitable rule,” added the Monarch, “that what concerns all should be judged of by all.