Word Meanings - DISCOMPLIANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.

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• COMPLY
  are of different origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish, 1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with. Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply, Scandalous or
• NONCOMPLIANCE
  Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.
• COMPLIANCE
  1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay. 2. A disposition to yield to others;
• DISCOMMENDER
  One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• COVENTRY
  A town in the county of Warwick, England. To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. -- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• DISCOMPLIANCE
  Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.
• CHANCELLOR
  A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with
• REFUSAL
  1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more Milton. 2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking
• DISCOMMEND
  1. To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. Spenser. By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others. Jer. Taylor. 2. To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any
• DISCOMMENDABLE
  Deserving, disapprobation or blame. -- Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness, n.
• DISCOMMENDATION
  Blame; censure; reproach. Ayliffe.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• INCOMPLIANCE
  1. The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillotson. 2. Refusal or failure to comply. Strype.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• NONCOMPLYING
  Neglecting or refusing to comply.