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
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
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
The bishops would faine haue persuaded Anselme to haue shewed himselfe comformable to the kings pleasure, and therefore tooke paines with him earnestlie in that behalfe, but all would not serue.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus by Raphael Holinshed
Is it not in the same sense that the Fathers condemned slavery as contrary to divine law, while respecting it as comformable to human law?
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by George O'Brien
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