[f. CONFORM + -ANCE. Cf. performance.] The action of conforming; the shaping of action in conformity to or with.
1606. Chapman, Gentl. Usher, III. i. So, and in such conformance, with rare grace Were all things orderd.
1721. Perry, Daggenh. Breach, 80. In Conformance to the general Desire of my Friends.
1863. Hawthorne, Our Old Home, Haunts of Burns (1879), 224. By way of further conformance to the customs of the country, we ordered a sheep’s head.
1885. Law Times, 28 Feb., 311/2. To perform their duty in conformance with the statute.
