discompliance

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noun

Failure or refusal to comply.

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Meanings

noundiscompliance (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralobsoleteFailure or refusal to comply.

    A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my Lord Chancellor.

    1664 August 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “July 23rd, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
unconformity

Origin

From dis- + compliance.

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APA

discompliance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discompliance

MLA

“discompliance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discompliance. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “discompliance,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discompliance.

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