conformative

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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”, in Crisis:
  A true individual is not conformative but formative.
(nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a conformation.

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, Robert Y. Shapiro, edited by Martha Joynt Kumar and Lawrence R. Jacobs, 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.

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