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Example sentences for "coherency"

Lexicographically close words:
coheir; coheiress; coheirs; cohere; coherence; coherent; coherently; coherer; coheres; cohering
  1. His was a nature in which simplicity and complexity were very curiously contrasted, and it would need all his own power of fusing innumerable details into coherency to create a picture that would seem sufficient to those who knew him.

  2. But when any coherency unites these ideas of the supernatural, that I think is the work of Buddhism and so far as Taoism itself has any coherency it is an imitation of Buddhism.

  3. A murmur of testimony to Mr. Bartlett's unvarying sobriety and that of his men threatened to undermine the coherency of the conversation, but the position was saved by Uncle Mo, who seemed less infatuated than others about them.

  4. Certainly the coherency of this speech was not on its surface.

  5. To the loss of the first three books, are to be added several chasms in the others; but fortunately they happen in such places as not to affect the coherency of the author's doctrine, though they interrupt the illustration of it.

  6. It is obvious that the coherency and force of the above passage depends on the idea, that there is a real power in the strongest inclination or desire of the mind, which renders it difficult to be surmounted or overcome.

  7. Thus this great champion of necessity, just passes from one meaning of the term to another, without the least regard to the point in dispute, or to the logical coherency of his argument.

  8. Since there is little coherency about the legislation agreed upon, there can be little coherency about the debates.

  9. That Ayres' interpretation enhances the coherency of the story is beyond dispute: that it does so at the cost of putting some strain upon the text in one or two places may perhaps be urged[477].

  10. And in this particular instance, there is a want of coherency and intelligibility in Saxo's account, which in itself affords a strong presumption that it is imperfect.

  11. This seems to be a great mistake of certain theologians, who pay more attention to the coherency of their system than to the light of nature or of revelation.

  12. Does he even intimate a doubt with respect to the perfect coherency and validity of this argument?

  13. Whatever its defects, lack of coherency was not one of them.

  14. Some force must have been at work on the solid rock, destroying its coherency and converting it into loose sand.

  15. Going still higher, the rusty character increases, and along joints the rock is so lacking in coherency as to fall to pieces when struck a light blow with a hammer.

  16. There is no consistency which has not once been inconsistent, nor coherency that has not been incoherent.

  17. Granted that if we examine them closely we shall at length find them to embody a little germ of truth-that is to say, of coherency with our other ideas; but there is too little truth in proportion to the trouble necessary to get at it.

  18. We can get more truth, that is to say, more coherency-for truth and coherency are one-for less trouble in other ways.

  19. In the gage and stress of conflict his thought flowed without the least break in its coherency and without the slightest disconcertedness.

  20. He is not content with borrowing from philosophy the grace of a passing sanction or countersign, but undertakes to lend her a systematic coherency of development, and sometimes even a fundamental basis.

  21. In the exposition now completed we have in general taken for granted the truth and coherency of Leibniz's fundamental ideas, and have contented ourselves with an account of the principles and notions that flow from these ideas.

  22. So it misses the peace of certitude, and not only its peace, but the strength and coherency that follow strict acceptance of the worst, when the worst is after all the best within reach.

  23. But short of this there can be no value in coherency and harmonious consistency as such.

  24. And these ideas had originated among people so characteristically devoid of the sovereign faculty of political coherency as were the Greeks and the Jews.

  25. The apologist may retort that he did not mean answer to the argument from coherency of conduct.

  26. Why do we say that intellectual self-respect is not vigorous, nor the sense of intellectual responsibility and truthfulness and coherency quick and wakeful among us?

  27. And a commanding grasp of principles, whether they are public or not, is at the very root of coherency of character.

  28. Our identity does by no means consist in a historic continuity of tissues, but in an organic moral coherency of relation.

  29. But the principle which gives coherency to architecture is symmetry, that which gives coherency to music is rhythm.

  30. The United States today cling together with a coherency far greater than the coherency of any ordinary federation or league.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coherency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.