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Confirmative vs Conformative - What's the difference?

confirmative | conformative |

As adjectives the difference between confirmative and conformative

is that confirmative is that serves to confirm while conformative is tending to conform; conforming.

confirmative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That serves to confirm

    • conformative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
  • (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a conformation.

    • Quotations

    * 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: Martha Joynt Kumar (ed.), Lawrence R. Jacobs (ed.), Robert Y. Shapiro, 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 ----