unconform

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English

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Adjective

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unconform (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Unlike.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC:
      Not unconform to other shining globes

Verb

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unconform (third-person singular simple present unconforms, present participle unconforming, simple past and past participle unconformed)

  1. To behave in a nonconformist manner; to reject conformity.
    • 2001, Will Wyatt, Discovery: God's Answers to Our Deepest Questions, page 131:
      Maybe you've tried your whole Christian life to "unconform" yourself and transform yourself.
    • 2018, Bic Rogers, Don't Call Me Hunchy:
      Being too young to be able to unconform I now present the reader their chance to learn from Hunchy.
    • 2022, Nicola Moras, Into the Spotlight:
      It's time to unconform; to dispense with the same–same 'pastel and marble' way of doing things.