CONGRUITY, n. 1. Suitableness; the relation of agreement between things.There is no congruity between a mean subject and a lofty style; but an obvious congruity between an elevated station and dignified deportment.2. Fitness, pertinence.A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting a particle.3. Reason; consistency; propriety.4. In school divinity, the good actions which are supposed to render it meet and equitable that God should confer grace on those who perform them. The merit of congruity is a sort of imperfect qualification for the gift and reception of Gods grace.5. In geometry, figures or lines, which when laid over one another, exactly correspond, are in congruity.
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