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n. - The condition of being suitable.

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  • On the other hand, there is a certain fittingness to packaging these two films together.
  • "de congruo," that is, a merit of simple "fittingness," which is characteristic of every angelic and human creature.
  • Though such a thematic doesn’t seem logically necessary to begin with, it exhibits an incalculably rich symbolic coherence as well as that gloriously gratuitous...
  • This also seems to denote fittingness rather than obligation.
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