egality

egality

English

Etymology

From Middle French egalité, esgalité.

Noun

egality (countable and uncountable, plural egalities)

1. (archaic) Equality. [14th-19th c.]
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parson's Tale:

     She is the preisynge / of this world, and she is as thise martirs / In egalitee; she hath in hire that tonge may / Nat telle ne herte thynke.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)