English-Thai Dictionary
congruity
N ความเหมาะสม appropriateness kwam-mor-som
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CONGRUITY
n. 1. Suitableness; the relation of agreement between things.
There is no congruity between a mean subject and a lofty style; but an obvious congruity between an elevated station and dignified deportment.
2. Fitness, pertinence.
A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting a particle.
3. Reason; consistency; propriety.
4. In school divinity, the good actions which are supposed to render it meet and equitable that God should confer grace on those who perform them. The merit of congruity is a sort of imperfect qualification for the gift and reception of Gods grace.
5. In geometry, figures or lines, which when laid over one another, exactly correspond, are in congruity.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CONGRUITY
Con *gru "i *ty ( or, n.; pl. Congruities. Etym: [Cf. F. congruit.]
1. 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.
2. (Geom.)
Defn: Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
3. (Scholastic Theol.)
Defn: That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
congruity
con gru i ty /kənɡrú (ː )əti /名詞 複 -ties U C 1 ｟かたく ｠ «…との » 一致, 適合, 調和 «with » .2 〘数 〙(図形の )合同 .
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