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Pari Passu

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What does Pari Passu mean?

adverb

  1. Simultaneously; likewise, equally.
  2. At an equal rate.

adjective

  1. At an equal rate.

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Such tribes only advance pari passu with the creatures upon which they feed.
Samuel ButlerCanterbury PiecesProject Gutenberg ebook #3279
Louis XV, so subservient to the Church in all things, never betrayed the slightest consciousness that, while making enormous expenditures to gratify his own and the national vanity, he ought to carry on works, pari passu, for charity.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
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But the ingenious machinery contrived by the Gods for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum—which arranges that wisdom to do shall come pari passu with the departure of zest for doing—stood in the way of all that.
Thomas HardyThe Mayor of CasterbridgeProject Gutenberg ebook #143