[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CONFORM, q.v.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, xvi. 1. Þai ere ane thurgh grace & confourmynge of will.

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1641.  Milton, Animadv. (1851), 206. Their scandalous and base conforming to heathenisme.

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1660.  R. Coke, Power & Subj., 266. The upright conforming of subjects actions to the laws of their rightful Superiours.

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