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Word Meanings - CONGENIALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds. If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed. Motley.

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  • COMMISERATION
    The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • WRITING
    1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
  • FITNESS
    The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • WRITATIVE
    Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
  • CONGRUITY
    Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
    A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • LETTERER
    One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
  • CONCERTMEISTER
    The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.
  • WRIT
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
  • LETTERURE
    Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • CONCERTATIVE
    Contentious; quarrelsome. Bailey.
  • WRITHLE
    To wrinkle. Shak.
  • MATCHLOCK
    An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
  • CONCERTION
    Act of concerting; adjustment. Young.
  • COMMUNICATION
    A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of
  • INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
    Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • TYPEWRITING
    The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • INTERCOMMUNICATION
    Mutual communication. Owen.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • UNDERWRITING
    The business of an underwriter,
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • UNDERWRITER
    One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
  • PRECONCERTED
    Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.

 

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