conformative
English
Adjective
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", Crisis
- A true individual is not conformative but formative.
- 1932, Jean Toomer, "As the Eagle Soars", Crisis
- (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, Martha Joynt Kumar (ed.), Lawrence R. Jacobs (ed.), Robert Y. Shapiro, 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
- feminine plural of conformativo