[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That conforms.
† 1. Shaping, fashioning according to a pattern.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., III. vi. 277. Its [the seed’s] specifical conforming Principle.
2. Complying with any usage or form; esp. in Eng. Hist. with the usages of the Church of England.
[1674. Hickman, Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2), 204. Not only Non-conforming Divines, but also the most zealous Conformists.]
1681. Roxb. Ballads (1883), IV. 655. To conforming Protestants, and those that dissent.
1732. Neal, Hist. Puritans, I. 343. The body of the conforming clergy were so ignorant and illiterate.
1890. Athenæum, 8 Feb., 171/2. There were malcontents among the conforming clergy.
