Definition of Conform

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Conform

Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.

To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.

To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; -- with to or with.

To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

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Conform Quotations

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp

Conform Translations

conform in Afrikaans is pas
conform in Danish is passe
conform in Dutch is passen, in overeenstemming zijn
conform in French is conformons, conforment, conformez, conformer
conform in Latin is congruo
conform in Norwegian is tilpasse
conform in Portuguese is conforme-se
conform in Spanish is conforme
conform in Swedish is anpassa

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