adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In an equitable manner; according to the rules of equity, in a spirit of fairness.

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1663.  Charleton, Chor. Gigant., 7. And equitably examined the probability.

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1736.  Butler, Anal., II. vi. Wks. 1874, I. 232. No more [will] be required of any one, than what might have been equitably expected of him.

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1839.  G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., III. 343. Acting equitably towards the unoffending peasantry of another nation.

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1872.  Yeats, Growth Comm., 249. He … distributed the imposts more equitably.

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