All 4 Uses of
conform
in
Mansfield Park
- The place became less strange, and the people less formidable; and if there were some amongst them whom she could not cease to fear, she began at least to know their ways, and to catch the best manner of conforming to them.†
Chpt 2 *
- Her pleasant manners and cheerful conformity made her always valuable amongst them; but now she was absolutely necessary.†
Chpt 18
- She could think of William the next day more cheerfully; and as the morning afforded her an opportunity of talking over Thursday night with Mrs. Grant and Miss Crawford, in a very handsome style, with all the heightenings of imagination, and all the laughs of playfulness which are so essential to the shade of a departed ball, she could afterwards bring her mind without much effort into its everyday state, and easily conform to the tranquillity of the present quiet week.†
Chpt 29
- Miss Crawford's letter, which she had read so often as to make every line her own, was in frightful conformity with it.†
Chpt 46
Definition:
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(conform) to comply, fit in, or be similar to what is normal