discompliance

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ compliance

Noun

discompliance (plural not attested)

  1. (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.
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