conformative
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]conformative (comparative more conformative, superlative most conformative)
- (nonstandard) Tending to conform; abiding by rules, laws, or social conventions.
- 1932, Jean Toomer, “As the Eagle Soars”, in Crisis:
- A true individual is not conformative but formative.
- (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a conformation.
Quotations
[edit]- 1999, Phillip K. Wilson, Surgery, Skin And Syphilis: Daniel Turner's London (1667-1741):
- […] the impressed immaterial ‘species’ from the mother’s imagination became expressed as a result of the imagination’s conformative power.
- 2000, Robert Y. Shapiro, edited by Martha Joynt Kumar and Lawrence R. Jacobs, Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-first Century:
- The immediate prospects for transformational (or conformative) leadership in the presidency do not at present appear auspicious.
- 2004, Paul Spencer, The Samburu: A Study in Geocentracy:
- The social structure of the two conformative societies is more clearly defined: individual enterprise and competition are more discernible in the other two.
Italian
[edit]Adjective
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