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verb

Conform v. t. (past & past part. conformed; pres. part. conforming) To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; usually with to or unto. "Demand of them wherefore they conform not themselves unto the order of the church."

Conform v. i.

To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; with to or with. "A rule to which experience must conform."

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist. "About two thousand ministers whose consciences did not suffer them to conform were driven from their benefices in a day."

adjective

conforming adj.

Adhering to established customs or doctrines, especially in religion, as e.g. Orthodox Judaism. (Narrower terms: orthodox (vs. unorthodox))

Synonyms: conformist.

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Etymology of 'Conforming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conforming" Quotes from Famous Books

... mangled Moliere's comedy; committed the vulgarities and hypocrisies of "Joseph's Legende." And did no evidence roundly to the contrary exist, one might suppose this group to really represent modern life; that its modernity was the only true one; and that in expressing it, in conforming to it, Strauss was functioning in the only manner granted the contemporary composer. But since such evidence exists aplenty, since a dozen other musicians, to speak only of the practitioners of a single ...

— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld

... different. He had said that he sought God in art, while she sought him in dogma. But if she accepted dogma, it was only as a cripple accepts a crutch, Catholicism was essential to her, without it she could not walk; but while conforming to dogma, it seemed possible to transcend its narrowness, and to attach to every petty belief a spiritual significance. It is right that we should acquiesce in these beliefs, for they are the symbols by which the faith was kept alive and handed ...

— Evelyn Innes • George Moore

... came there to concoct their plans for coming campaigns, to fix their slates and to devise means for grasping with eager hands the spoils of government. Young men anxious for places in the gift of the government found that winking at Frank Miller's vices and conforming to the demoralizing customs of his place were passports to political favors, and lacking moral stamina, hushed their consciences and became partakers of his sins.[4] Men talked in private of his vices, and ...

— Trial and Triumph • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

... I can't reach you in any other way, perhaps insult will jar you out of your state of moral smugness. How dare you even consider having me tried for stealing money from the Cassylia casino when all I was doing was conforming to their own code of ethics! They run crooked gambling games, so the law under their local ethos must be that crooked gambling is the norm. So I cheated them, conforming to their norm. If they have also passed a law that says cheating ...

— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey

... The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote ...

— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)

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