conformity

Roget category 82

1. Words expressing abstract relations
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#82. Conformity

noun

conformity, conformance — observance — habituation.
naturalization — conventionality etc. (custom) 613 — agreement etc. 23.
example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation — exemplification, illustration, case in point — object lesson — elucidation.
standard, model, pattern etc. (prototype) 22.
rule, nature, principle — law — order of things — normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition — standing dish, standing order — Procrustean law — law of the Medes and Persians — hard and fast rule.

verb

conform to, conform to rule — accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself to — rub off corners.
be regular etc. adj. — move in a groove — follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules, obey the rules, obey the precedents — comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with — be guided by, be regulated by — fall into a custom, fall into a usage — follow the fashion, follow the crowd, follow the multitude — pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups [Fr.] — stand on ceremony — when in Rome do as the Romans do — go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind — stick to the beaten track etc. (habit) 613 — keep one in countenance.
exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case — produce an instance etc. n. — elucidate, explain.

adjective

conformable to rule — regular etc. 136 — according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter — en regle [Fr.], selon les regles [Fr.], well regulated, orderly — symmetric etc. 242.
conventional etc. (customary) 613 — of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence — in the natural order of things — ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.
in the order of the day — naturalized.
typical, normal, nominal, formal — canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean.
secundum artem [Lat.], shipshape, technical.
exempIe [Fr.].
illustrative, in point.

adverb

conformably etc. adj. — by rule — agreeably to — in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with — according to — consistently with — as usual, ad instar [Lat.], instar omnium [Lat.] — more solito [Lat.], more-majorum.
for the sake of conformity — as a matter of course, of course — pro forma [Lat.], for form's sake, by the card.
invariably, etc. (uniformly) 16.
for example, exempli gratia [Lat.], e.
g. — inter alia [Lat.], among other things — for instance.

phrase

cela va sans dire [Fr.] — ex pede Herculem [Lat.] — noscitur a sociis [Lat.] — ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Lat.] [Erasmus]; they are happy men whose natures sort with their they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations" [Bacon]. The nail that sticks up hammered down [Jap.Tr.] — Tall poppy syndrome — Stick your neck out and it may get cut off.

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