congruity

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Congruity between his original and her mental versions was very often astonishingly close.

From Time Magazine Archive

A further explication of Congruity: And an attempt of solving the Ph�nomena of the strange Experiment of the suspension of the Mercury at a much greater height then thirty inches.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert

Here are points which—pray, Doctor, what's "Grace of Congruity?"

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Congruity, the subjection of the parts to the whole, and to the end in view—the doctrine of key—Hawthorne illustrates all this.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

Concrete, 135-44 Congruity, 3, 72 Connection, 7; see Relation.

From How We Think by Dewey, John