| 词组 | coequal |
| 释义 | coequal Bryson 1984 disparages this word as "a fatuous addition to the language." But coequal was actually added to the language in the 14th century and has been found useful now for about 600 years. • A confederacy of coequal, sovereign states had been tried and found wanting —Samuel Eliot Morison & Henry Steele Commager, The Growth of the American Republic, 3d ed., 1942 • At one time botany and zoology were roughly coequal in biology at universities —Philip H. Abelson, Science, 18 June 1971 • All the coequal ingredients—choreography, music, book, design—of ballet —Walter Terry, Saturday Rev.,24July 1976 • ... personal and political disputes among its six coequal members —Paul Kemezis, N.Y. Times, 22 Aug. 1976 It's used as a noun, too: • By 1970 he had eclipsed Prime Minister Aleksei N. Kosygin, his coequal at the beginning —Craig R. Whitney, N. Y. Times Mag., 10 June 1979 You can use the word without fear. As the examples suggest, coequal tends to be used in contexts where the equality is established on some formal basis, and it is frequent in political contexts. |
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