Hypertext Webster Gateway: "congruity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny
that her enemies do at all appertain to the church
of Christ? --Hooker.

A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by
wanting one particle. --Sir P.
Sidney.

2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over
one another.

3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons,
which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts
of grace.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

congruity
n : the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
[syn: {congruousness}, {congruence}] [ant: {incongruity},
{incongruity}]


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