comformable
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He explained the hale circumstances o' the case to me, and I dinna think the charge o' a grown, handsome girl like Maggie was comformable, or to be thocht o'.
From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"I must not stay, but it is my Lady's wish that you should have all that is comformable, and you'll let me know how Madge behaves herself."
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge
But, Sir, I am glad to see how comformable you are to the statutes.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
And yet no force is imposed on it, but only those things which are comformable to its nature: still it does not submit, but is carried in the opposite direction.
From Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius by George Long
She was a girl easily influenced by chance acquaintance, more ready to enjoy life than to examine its underlying elements, in all things more comformable to conventions.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
