conformative

English

Adjective

conformative (comparative more conformative, superlative most conformative)

1. (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.

2. (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a conformation.

Quotations

• 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

Adjective

conformative f

1. feminine plural of conformativo

Anagrams

• confermativo, conformatevi