Congruity

Congruity = The fanboy movie sucks as bad as the movies fanboys like.

WEINSTEIN PWNS FANBOYS 2008

These attributes cannot be maintained; divisibility and motion cannot “with any tolerable Congruity agree to a Spiritual Substance, strictly so call'd” (438).

Motherly Advice Trace Sheridan 2009

Evidence from the nature of things occurs “when there is such a Congruity or Incongruity betwixt the Terms of a Proposition, or the Deduction of one Proposition from another, as doth either satisfy the mind, or else leaves it in doubt and hesitation about them” (Wilkins, p. 4).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY G. VAN LEEUWEN 1968

Reason: For _Wit_ lying most in the Assemblage of _Ideas_, and putting those together with Quickness and Variety, wherein can be found any Assemblance or Congruity, thereby to make up pleasant

An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

_Affinity_, or _Congruity_, with each other; which was the _first_ just Information obtained by the literary World, upon this Subject.

An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

Congruity with the general conception of the healing works of Jesus, as wrought by a peculiar psychical power.

Miracles and Supernatural Religion James Morris Whiton 1876

Congruity with the objects to which it is applied should be the chief merit of any structure whatever; and so long as that object be attained, good taste is not violated, and utility is fully subserved.

Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845

To your astonishment, it turns out oftenest No. The cloudy-browed, thick-soled, opaque Practicality, with no logic utterance, in silence mainly, with here and there a low grunt or growl, has in him what transcends all logic-utterance: a Congruity with the Unuttered.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Here are points which -- pray, Doctor, what's "Grace of Congruity?"

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815

Besides, _Wit_ lying mostly in the Assemblage of _Ideas_, and in the putting Those together with Quickness and Variety, wherein can be found any Resemblance, or Congruity, to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy; the Writer, who aims at Wit, must of course range far and wide for Materials.

Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) Lewis Theobald 1716