incompliancen.
/ɪnkəmˈplʌɪəns/ Now rare.
The fact or quality of being incompliant.† 1. Want of conformity or accordance. Obsolete.† 2. Unaccommodating disposition; want of complaisance. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [noun]
difformity1530
disconformity1572
inconformity1594
unconformitya1600
incompliance1656
1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper xvii. 180 As a strait Rule discovers a crooked line by the incompliance of it to the Rule.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [noun]
cursednessc1386
crabbedness1413
thrawnness1499
currishness1542
doggedness1592
spleen1597
incompliance1689
crustiness1727
dourness1794
grumpiness1835
cussedness1852
nabalism1853
ungeniality1859
disgrace1861
cantankerousness1881
ugliness1889
stroppiness1969
1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 76 A Martial Man, except he has been sweetned, and polished by a Lettered Education, is apt to have a tincture of sowerness, and incomplyance in his Behaviour.
a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1743) I. iii. 101 All peevishness and incompliance of humour in things lawful and indifferent.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 291/2 A peevishness of temper or incompliance of manners,..produce the most incurable aversions in a married life.
1805 J. Foster 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.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > intractability or recalcitrance
unbowsomeness1340
wincing1426
restiness?c1550
restiffness?1561
restiveness?1561
intractability1579
untractablenessa1600
indocility1648
non-compliance1648
intractableness1664
non-complying1687
uncompliableness1687
incompliance1708
non-cooperation1795
recalcitrancy1844
recalcitrance1845
uncompliability1880
bolshiness1975
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > non-compliance
disassent1423
disagreement1495
discompliance1664
incompliance1708
1708 Diss. Drunkenness 29 Will he baulk his Interest, and punish himself for so small an Incompliance?
1781 S. Johnson Let. 4 Apr. (1992) III. 329 Mr. Johnson knows that Sir Joshua..will excuse his incompliance with the call.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. i. 21 Pitt..foresaw incompliance on the Duke's part.
1885 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. (1893) III. xvi. 147 They wrote to complain, 18 July, adding that her incompliance in religion gave countenance to the disturbances.
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