Synonyms:
conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance
Meaning: acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
Usage examples
The same winter the Athenians purified Delos, in compliance, it appears, with a certain oracle.
Cocalus feigned compliance and invited Minos to his palace, where he was treacherously put to death in a warm bath.
She could not refuse, but her compliance was without any sort of exertion, from a desire to avoid, not promote similar calls for exhibition.
But if, whether by design or by accident, I ever see or hear from her, that moment, my compliance to her mother's supplication ceases, and I abandon her once more."
I have meditated upon every possible expedient that might tend to your happiness, ere I fixed upon exacting from you a compliance which I am convinced will be most painful to you; but I can satisfy myself in none.
Augustus, for that was the name of the King of Poland, finding that now, since so great a force had arrived to succor and strengthen the place, there was no hope for success in any of his operations against it, concluded to make a virtue of necessity, and so he drew off his army, and sent word to the Dutch government that he did so in compliance with their wishes.