Synonyms for conforming
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kuhn-fawrm |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈfɔrm |
Définition of conforming
Origin :- mid-14c., confourmen, from Old French conformer "conform (to), agree (to), make or be similar, be agreeable" (13c.), from Latin conformare "to fashion, to form, to shape; educate; modify," from com- "together" (see com-) + formare "to form" (see form (v.)).
- Sense of "to comply with the usages of the Church of England" is from 1610s; hence conformist (1630s), opposed to non-conformist or dissenter. Related: Conformance; conformed; conforming.
- adj agreeing
- She conformed beautifully, but you would have felt she understood your not conforming.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- They vacillate, conforming now to the interest of the wage-workers, now to the interest of the employers.
- Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo
- Shakespeare is blamed for not conforming to standards unknown to his generation.
- Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield
- Let me illustrate what I mean by conforming to the standard.
- Extract from : « Outdoor Sketching » by Francis Hopkinson Smith
- In forty-five departments we know that there were 13,426 conforming clergy.
- Extract from : « Lectures on the French Revolution » by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
- Why are you not conforming with their amiable peculiarities?'
- Extract from : « A Modern Mercenary » by Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
- They twisted about and wound in and out, conforming to the shape of the top of the hill.
- Extract from : « Australia in Arms » by Phillip F.E. Schuler
- The right is found in conforming to the requirements which they develop and impose.
- Extract from : « Theoretical Ethics » by Milton Valentine
- She may be less capable of erecting ideals and conforming her conduct to them.
- Extract from : « Idling in Italy » by Joseph Collins
- Conforming to the truest of principles he raised his work by getting under it.
- Extract from : « William Morris » by Elizabeth Luther Cary
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