Word Meanings - CONFORMANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Conformity. Marston.

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• CONFORMITY
  1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• DISCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill.
• UNCONFORMITY
  Want of parallelism between strata in contact. Note: With some authors unconformity is equivalent to unconformability; but it is often used more broadly, for example, to include the case when the parallelism of strata once conformable
• NONCONFORMITY
  Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.
• PRECONFORMITY
  Anticipative or antecedent conformity. Coleridge.