1290–1349, Richard Rolle, in The Fire of Love and the Mending of Life, chapter 7, published about 1920:
One Godhead truly there is, of three Persons, full and perfect, and ilk Person in the self contains the whole Godhead; evenhood and onehood, forsooth, having after the Substance of the Godhead:
1572, Thomas Wilson, Discourse upon Usury:
Iustice is none other thinge then a certeine evenhode or equalitie, and therefore they that do not in their dealings use an equal property, do not use Iustice.
1686, Consuetudo; Vel, Lex Mercatoria:
[...] and (as it were) become a measure whereby the Price of all things might be set, to maintain a certain evenhood or equality in buying and felling; [...]
1894, Percy Fritz Rowland, A Comparison, Criticism and Estimate of the English Novelists from 1700 to 1850, page 28:
There seem signs of a nobler age; of an age when the pride of worth shall have followed the pride of birth and the lust of wealth to its grave; when a honester and more thoughtful race, reared beneath a greater evenhood† of conditions of life, shall have learned to receive the boon of existence with humbler hearts and a less consistent selfishness; [...]
† If it be allowed us to revive a good but withered English word, to express somewhat less than equality.
1956, Ben Lowe, Teaching in the Scole of Christ: published 2004, The Catholic Historical Review - Volume 90:
As one Lollard writer explained its relationship to preventing violence: "And so, since the law of the gospel is charity, rightfulness, truth, evenhood [justice], mercy, cleanness, and peace of God, where that any law in any manner helpeth not this, but to strife and debate, [...]
1987, Lavender Reader - Volume 2:
The blee of this initiative ettles to dout our evenhood.
1991, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IECON `91: proceedings:
The results also showed that, contrary to the common belief, with some means finely grained tasks do not cause communication overhead and provide performance evenhead and provide performance even better than that of large tasks.
