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incompliant, a. Now rare.|ɪnkəmˈplaɪənt|
[f. in-3 + compliant.]
Not compliant.
1. Not yielding or disposed to yield to the desires or requests of others; unaccommodating, unsubmissive, uncompliant.
1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 302 There are a sort of incompliant People that are all of a piece. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. (1824) I. vii. 154 If they themselves held together, and remained incompliant with the steps that were taking, the Queen must be forced to keep them in the church. 1721― Eccl. Mem. II. xxix. 238 We find three incompliant prelates more this year under confinement in the Tower. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. xiii. 285 That reaction which inflames the incompliant to obstinacy.
2. Of things:
a. Not in harmony, incompatible, not lending itself to some purpose.
b. Unpliant, unyielding.
1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. iii. v. (1854) 159 The narrowness of the ways..was altogether incompliant with the army's march. 1663T. Jordan Royal Arb. Poesie 22 Men act, that are between Forty and fifty, Wenches of fifteen; With bone so large, and nerve so incomplyant, When you call Desdemona, enter Giant. 1846Landor Wks. II. 216/1 No branch of intellectual pleasure so brittle and incompliant as never to be turned to profit.
Hence incomˈpliantly adv., in an unyielding or unaccommodating manner.
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