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- Compatible, accordant.
1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, , London: W Taylor , →OCLC, page 43:As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, ſo I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to purſue a raſh and immoderate Deſire of riſing faſter than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I caſt myself down again into the deepeſt Gulph of human Miſery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be conſiſtent with Life and a State of Health in the World.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Pride and Prejudice: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 186:"It is wonderful,"—replied Wickham,—"for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;—and pride had often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than with any other feeling. But we are none of us consistent; and in his behaviour to me, there were stronger impulses even than pride."
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIX, in Pride and Prejudice: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 251:When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.