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Consistency

noun

The property of holding together and retaining its shape. Synonyms: body, consistence, eubstance. "When the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"

A harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts. Synonym: consistence.

Logical coherence and accordance with the facts.

(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another.

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"Consistency" Quotes from Famous Books

... I heard Mary say," is a fine song; but for consistency's sake, alter the name "Adonis." Was there ever such banns published, as a purpose of marriage between Adonis and Mary? I agree with you that my song, "There's nought but care on every hand," is much superior to "Poortith Cauld." The original ...

— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... from their native moorings, which is done by the agency of frosts, as well as by the action of the seasons in the warm months, are usually tabular, and of regular outlines; but this shape is soon lost by the action of the waves on ice of very different degrees of consistency; some being composed of frozen snow; some of the moisture precipitated from the atmosphere in the shape of fogs; and some of pure frozen water. The first melts soonest; and a berg that drifts for any length of time with one particular face ...

— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper

... French sweet bread and while different authorities do not agree as to both the consistency and methods, without doubt these cakes ...

— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson

... the fancy of the skull—of letting fall a bullet through the skull's eye—was suggested to Kidd by the piratical flag. No doubt he felt a kind of poetical consistency in recovering his money through this ...

— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill

... same way as for his boys. Rosa soon became a favorite with the girls in the Fauborg St. Antoine School, especially because she could draw such witty caricatures of the teachers, which she pasted against the wall, with bread chewed into the consistency of putty. The teachers were not pleased, but so struck were they with the vigor and originality of the drawings, that they carefully preserved the sketches in ...

— Lives of Girls Who Became Famous • Sarah Knowles Bolton

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