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noun

Conformity n. (pl. conformities)

Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; followed by to, with, or between. "By our conformity to God." "The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God." "A conformity between the mental taste and the sensitive taste."

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church. "The king (James I.) soon afterward put forth a proclamation requiring all ecclesiastical and civil officers to do their duty by enforcing conformity."

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... prohibition of eating unclean animals, and their enumeration, are known to you all. It would be supposed that, amidst the uncertainty of an Indian life, all kinds of food would be equally acceptable. Not so: for, in strict conformity with the Mosaic law, they abstain from eating the blood of any animal, they abominate swine flesh, they do not eat fish without scales, the eel, the turtle or sea-cow: and they deem many animals and birds to be impure. These facts are noticed by all writers, and particularly by Edwards ...

— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... overflowing magnanimity was not at all in conformity with the well-established habits of the devotee. Close-fisted niggardliness displayed itself in his every feature and warred against ...

— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai

... attorneys greatly distinguishing themselves in their calling. After an interminable hearing, and pleadings longer and more complicated than ever, which however did not bamboozle the court, judgment was pronounced in conformity with the summing ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERAN--1639 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... about the middle or end of March, B.C. 404, that Lysander sailed into Piraeus, and took formal possession of Athens; the war, in singular conformity with the prophecies current at the beginning of it, having lasted for a period of thrice nine, or 27 years. The insolence of the victors added another blow to the feelings of the conquered. The work of destruction, at which Lysander presided, was converted ...

— A Smaller History of Greece • William Smith

... based on reason and in conformity with actual science and not on faith; on the development of personal Freedom and independence and not on that of piety and obedience; on the abolition of the fiction God, the eternal ...

— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various

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