Synonyms:
conformity, conformance
Meaning: correspondence in form or appearance
Synonyms:
conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance
Meaning: acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
Synonyms:
conformity, conformism
Meaning: orthodoxy in thoughts and belief
Usage examples
Therefore all men have not the conformity of image.
But, do you know, they interest me more than the blind conformity to tradition--somebody else's tradition--that I see among our own friends.
Secondly, inasmuch as man actually and habitually knows and loves God, though imperfectly; and this image consists in the conformity of grace.
The Cat is reproached with treachery and cruelty, but Bigland argues that the artifices which it uses are the particular instincts which the all-wise Creator has given it, in conformity with the purposes for which it was designed.
Here, now, it is the simple conformity to law in general, without assuming any particular law applicable to certain actions, that serves the will as its principle and must so serve it, if duty is not to be a vain delusion and a chimerical notion.
This book is an assemblage of data of external relations of this earth. We take the position that our data have been damned, upon no consideration for individual merits or demerits, but in conformity with a general attempt to hold out for isolation of this earth.
As I have deprived the will of every impulse which could arise to it from obedience to any law, there remains nothing but the universal conformity of its actions to law in general, which alone is to serve the will as a principle, i.e., I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.