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a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. vi. 336 A lively Faith in this Love of God..would make us melt and dissolve out of all Self-consistencie.

1669 J. Owen Truth & Innocence Vindicated 102 We shall find our Author himself setting up the Supremacy of Conscience in opposition unto..that of the Magistrate, (though with no great self-consistency).

1692 J. Norris Cursory Refl. Ess. Human Understanding 13 in Christian Blessedness (ed. 2) How then can he with any tolerable Self-consistency say [etc.].

1739 J. Constable Deism & Christianity Consider'd 311 It every where appears this Gentleman has no miraculous Gift of Self-Consistency.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 145 It was not..the principal design of Lycurgus, that his city should govern many others, but he considered it's happiness..as flowing from virtue and self-consistency.

1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 270 You deny the self-consistency of the Church of England and call it a compromise.

1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 40 Such facts do not..destroy..the self-consistency of the objects themselves.

1927 Science 30 Dec. 634/2 It serves to indicate the self-consistency of the set of measurements.

1980 D. Brin Sundiver x. xxxi. 337 A society with some unpalatable aspects but with, all the same, a self-consistency and its own form of honor.

2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 June mm32 What seems at first like narrowness, or mere repetition, is in fact intellectual self-consistency, dogged allegiance to the highest artistic ideals.