[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CONFORM, q.v.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, xvi. 1. Þai ere ane thurgh grace & confourmynge of will.
1641. Milton, Animadv. (1851), 206. Their scandalous and base conforming to heathenisme.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 266. The upright conforming of subjects actions to the laws of their rightful Superiours.