porportionably

Updated: May 18, 2025

Or else one may compare them to Generals of Armies, whose Forces usually encrease porportionably to their Victories; and who have need of more conduct to maintain themselves after the loss of a battail, then after the gaining one, to take Towns and Provinces.

René Descartes - A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason: and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences