discompliance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
dis- + compliance
Noun[edit]
discompliance (plural not attested)
- (obsolete) Failure or refusal to comply.
- 1664 August 2 (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:
- A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my Lord Chancellor.