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The term "conformable" has been employed in literature to denote an alignment or accordance with a prescribed standard, whether that pertains to reason, natural law, or established customs. Philosophers like Hume and Locke use the term to stress that ideas, judgments, and passions should be in harmony with experience and rational principles [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Likewise, thinkers such as Cicero argue that opinions must be conformable to truth, underscoring the imperative for intellectual consistency [7]. In literary narratives, the term is applied more broadly—from describing language that fits cultural idioms and habits [8] to outlining behavior that matches one's own internal precepts or societal norms [9][10][11]. Even in contexts discussing music, judicial forms, and mythological constructs, "conformable" serves to emphasize a correspondence between elements, be they thoughts, actions, or representations, and an expected order [12][13][14].
  1. Before we consider what they are in fact, let us determine what they ought to be, conformable to my hypothesis.
    — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  2. This definition will also be found to be entirely conformable to every one's feeling and experience.
    — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  3. Most fortunately all this reasoning is found to be exactly conformable to experience, and the phaenomena of the passions.
    — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  4. It is impossible, therefore, they can be pronounced either true or false, and be either contrary or conformable to reason.
    — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  5. This action is determined to be conformable to our abstract rule; that other, contrary.
    — from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
  6. I define necessity two ways, conformable to the two definitions of cause, of which it makes an essential part.
    — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  7. For all opinion is reason: right reason, if men’s thoughts are conformable to truth; wrong reason, if they are not.
    — from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  8. He had made himself acquainted with the language of his late hosts, ‘which was very conformable to the Greek idiom.
    — from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
  9. I pray thee be more conformable in this matter of my ransom.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  10. Be conformable, Isaac, and repeat the words after me.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  11. “Within eight days, if thou wilt be patient and conformable to my directions,” replied Rebecca.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  12. If the term nature is to be restricted to habits conformable to nature we need say no more.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  13. One might, perhaps add, as 4: that the memory-image is most conformable to the actual one.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  14. On the other hand, image and concept, under the influence of a truly conformable music, acquire a higher significance.
    — from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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