Word Meanings - LEGALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.

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• CONFORMABLE
  1. Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to. The fragments of Sappho give us a taste of her way of writing perfectly conformable with that character. Addison.
• CONFORMIST
  One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist. A cheeful conformist to your judgment. Jer.Taylor.
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• CONFORMITY
  1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
• CONFORMATOR
  An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.
• CONFORMATION
  1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity. The conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion and morality. I. Watts. 2. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on
• CONFORMABLENESS
  The quality of being conformable; conformability.
• CONFORM
  Of the same form; similar in import; conformable. Bacon. Care must be taken that the interpretation be every way conform to the analogy of faith. Bp.Hall.
• CONFORMATE
  Having the same form.
• CONFORMABLY
  With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably. Conformably to the law and nature of God. Bp. Beveridge.
• CONFORMABILITY
  1. The state of being conformable. 2. The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• CONFORMER
  One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
• CONFORMANCE
  Conformity. Marston.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• NONCONFORMING
  Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.
• UNCONFORMIST
  A nonconformist.
• NONCONFORMIST
  One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
• SUBCONFORMABLE
  Partially conformable.
• MALECONFORMATION
  Malconformation.
• DISCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill.
• INCONFORM
  Unconformable. Gauden.
• DISCONFORMABLE
  Not conformable. Disconformable in religion from us. Stow .
• UNCONFORM
  Unlike. Not unconform to other shining globes. Milton.
• UNCONFORMITY
  Want of parallelism between strata in contact. Note: With some authors unconformity is equivalent to unconformability; but it is often used more broadly, for example, to include the case when the parallelism of strata once conformable