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uncomˈpliant, a.
(un-1 7 and 5 b.)
1659Gauden Tears Ch. iii. xv. 305 By which you and they must needs be so well informed, as to be justly opposite and uncompliant to those Errours. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 672 When..the stubborn necessity of matter proves uncompliant. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 581 They generate a stiffness and preciseness.., rendering men troublesome and uncompliant. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. viii. 259 The King, in despair, dissolved this uncompliant Parliament. 1860W. L. Collins Luck of Ladysmede (1862) I. 320 A miserable wife, as some said,—an uncompliant mistress, according to others. |