All 7 Uses of
compliance
in
David Copperfield
- MY mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance with this odd request, if she had any disposition to do so.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- I hastened to comply with his friendly suggestion, and opening Peggotty's purse, turned it upside down into his hand.†
Chpt 4-6
- I preceded Mr. Omer, in compliance with his request; and after showing me a roll of cloth which he said was extra super, and too good mourning for anything short of parents, he took my various dimensions, and put them down in a book.†
Chpt 7-9
- We left the room, in compliance with this request.†
Chpt 19-21
- However much astonished I might be, I was sensible that I had no right to refuse compliance with such a peremptory command.†
Chpt 22-24
- I complied, in a very uncomfortable state, and with a warm shooting all over me, as if my apprehensions were breaking out into buds.†
Chpt 37-39
- He told me that Mr. Micawber had just now been arrested again (and for the last time) at the suit of Heep, and that, in compliance with a request I had made to him, he had paid the money, which I repaid him.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(compliance) to conform to rules or the wishes of others