conformability

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It is called "the Elephant Mound," from the fact that it bears the proportion and conformability of the Mastodon.

From Mound-Builders by Smyth, William J.

To things as things in themselves, conformability to law must necessarily belong independently of an understanding to cognize them.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

But while unconformability invariably bears testimony to a lapse of unrepresented time, the conformability of two sets of strata in contact by no means implies that the newer formation immediately succeeded the older one.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

In the Cutties Hillock quarry west of Elgin these reptiliferous beds rest directly on the sandstones containing Holoptychius of Upper Old Red Sandstone age, so that the apparent conformability must be entirely deceptive.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Pleasure is free when we represent to ourselves the conformability, and when the sensation that accompanies this representation is agreeable.

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich