Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Geology A type of unconformity in which the rock layers are parallel.
- noun Refusal or failure to conform; nonconformity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of agreement or conformity; inconsistency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A type of
unconformity in whicherosion or lack ofdeposition has occurred between two parallelsedimentary strata. - noun religion
nonconformity
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Examples
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A disconformity is a boundary between horizontal layers of old sedimentary rock and overlying younger layers deposited on an eroded surface.
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And even less, in the face of that, why sow disconformity?
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He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those, however they be miscalled, that desire to live purely, in such a use of Gods ordinances, as the best guidance of their conscience gives them, and to tolerate them, though in some disconformity to ourselves.
Paras 20-33 1909
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This we concede in so far as Schleiermacher speaks of such actions as are held to be neither in conformity nor in disconformity to duty, that is morally indifferent, but this is by no means the true idea of the allowed.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Since names and their signification are entirely arbitrary, such propositions are not, strictly speaking, susceptible of truth or falsity, but only of conformity or disconformity to usage or convention; and all the proof they are capable of, is proof of usage; proof that the words have been employed by others in the acceptation in which the speaker or writer desires to use them.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Since names and their signification are entirely arbitrary, such propositions are not, strictly speaking, susceptible of truth or falsity, but only of conformity or disconformity to usage or convention; and all the proof they are capable of, is proof of usage; proof that the words have been employed by others in the acceptation in which the speaker or writer desires to use them.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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While I understand the disconformity of Sox fans, the criticism of you is unwarranted.
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Being, but perverted to a state of disconformity to it, and opposition to him.
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806
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There is also a copartnership typal of zippered beset that has a disconformity of unworthyer sub-crates, one of which is the perfect spread to entrust my Moleskine Memo fob (I used to attend to orders my PDA in there).
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He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those, however they be miscalled, that desire to live purely, in such a use of God's ordinances, as the best guidance of their conscience gives them, and to tolerate them, though in some disconformity to ourselves.
Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641
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