comformable

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He explained the hale circumstances o' the case to me, and I dinna think the charge o' a grown, handsome girl like Maggie was comformable, or to be thocht o'.

From A Daughter of Fife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

The bishops would faine haue persuaded Anselme to haue shewed himselfe comformable to the kings pleasure, and therefore tooke paines with him earnestlie in that behalfe, but all would not serue.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus by Holinshed, Raphael

"It's all werry comformable indeed, marse," said the obsequious Wool.

From Hidden Hand by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

And yet no force is imposed on it, but only those things which are comformable to its nature: still it does not submit, but is carried in the opposite direction.

From Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius by Long, George

I am even fully convinced that those women, who at heart, profess sentiments more comformable to mine, would be the first to consider it an honor to dispute them.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell