Found 2 items, similar to Congruities.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: congruity
congruity
n : the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
[syn:
congruousness,
congruence] [ant:
incongruity,
incongruity]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Congruities
Congruity
\Con*gru"i*ty\ (? or ?), n.; pl.
Congruities. [Cf.
F. congruit?.]
1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or
agreement between things; fitness; harmony;
correspondence; consistency.
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With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny
that her enemies do at all appertain to the church
of Christ? --Hooker.
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A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by
wanting one particle. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over
one another.
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3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons,
which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts
of grace.
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