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▪ I. conforming, vbl. n.|kənˈfɔːmɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. conform, q.v.
a1340Hampole Psalter xvi. 1 Þai ere ane thurgh grace & confourmynge of will. 1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 206 Their scandalous and base conforming to heathenisme. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 266 The upright conforming of subjects actions to the laws of their rightful Superiours.
▪ II. conˈforming, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That conforms.
†1. Shaping, fashioning according to a pattern.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. vi. 277 Its [the seed's] specifical conforming Principle.
2. Complying with any usage or form; esp. in Eng. Hist. with the usages of the Church of England.
[1674Hickman Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2) 204 Not only Non-conforming Divines, but also the most zealous Conformists.] 1681Roxb. Ballads (1883) IV. 655 To conforming Protestants, and those that dissent. 1732Neal Hist. Puritans I. 343 The body of the conforming clergy were so ignorant and illiterate. 1890Athenæum 8 Feb. 171/2 There were malcontents among the conforming clergy. |