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discompliance

discompliance noun: failure or refusal to comply.

Noun

discompliance (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, obsolete) Failure 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...

Origin of discompliance

From dis- + compliance.

Questions about discompliance

What does discompliance mean?
Discompliance means failure or refusal to comply.
What part of speech is discompliance?
Discompliance is a noun.

Words near discompliance in the dictionary

  1. discompassionately
  2. discomplexion
  3. discomplexioned
  4. discomplexioning
  5. discomplexions
  6. discompliance
  7. discompose
  8. discomposed
  9. discomposedly
  10. discomposedness
  11. discomposes

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