All 9 Uses
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- Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five[159] out of the adults who prattle and play to it.†
Chpt 3.conforms = complies, fits in, or is similar to what is normal
- Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five[159] out of the adults who prattle and play to it.†
Chpt 3.conform = to comply, fit in, or be similar to what is normal
- The virtue in most request is conformity.†
Chpt 3.conformity = compliance, fitting in, or being similar to what is normal
- [172] The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force†
Chpt 3. *conforming = complying, fitting in, or being similar to what is normal
- A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.†
Chpt 3.conformity = compliance, fitting in, or being similar to what is normal
- [178] This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars†
Chpt 3.
- Your conformity explains nothing.†
Chpt 3.
- I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.†
Chpt 3.
- Sincerity is the luxury allowed, but diadems and authority, only to the highest rank, that being permitted to speak truth as having none above it to court or conform unto.†
Chpt 4.conform = to comply, fit in, or be similar to what is normal
Definitions:
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(conform) to comply, fit in, or be similar to what is normal
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Although the forms conform and conformity (referring to complying with established customs or doctrines) are more often used, conformist is more likely to appear on standardized tests.