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incompliance Now rare.|ɪnkəmˈplaɪəns|
[in-3.]
The fact or quality of being incompliant.
†1. Want of conformity or accordance. Obs.
a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 200 A streight rule discovers a crooked line by the incompliance of it to the rule.
†2. Unaccommodating disposition; want of complaisance. Obs.
a1694Tillotson Serm. (1743) I. iii. 101 All peevishness and incompliance of humour in things lawful and indifferent. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1703) 79 A martial man, except he has been sweetened and polished by a lettered education, is apt to have a tincture of sowerness and incomplyance in his behaviour. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 291/2 A peevishness of temper or incompliance of manners,..produce the most incurable aversions in a married life. 1805Foster Ess. ii. v. 178 Invested with a manner of sternness, reserve, and incompliance.
3. Failure to comply with a claim, desire, or request; non-compliance.
1708Diss. Drunkenness 29 Will he baulk his Interest, and punish himself for so small an Incompliance? 1781Johnson Let. 4 Apr., Mr. Johnson knows that Sir Joshua..will excuse his incompliance with the Call. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) III. i. 21 Pitt..foresaw incompliance on the Duke's part. 1885R. W. Dixon Hist. Ch. Eng. xvi. (1893) III. 147 They wrote to complain, 18 July, adding that her incompliance in religion gave countenance to the disturbances. |