01 n. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
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Congruities ((#))
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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.
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Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.(Geom.)
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That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.(Scholastic Theol.)