1687 H. Holden in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 175 None of them, though the danger of noncomplying was intimated to them,..would comply.

1649 Modest Narr. Intelligence No. 5. 40 The Scots new King hath given his final non-complying answer to them, that he intends suddenly for Ireland, and France in his way.

a1713 A. Pitcairne Assembly (1722) Dram. Pers. A non-complying Episcopal Minister.

1788 A. Hamilton in Federalist Papers xvi. 97 It is not probable..that the complying states would often be inclined to support the authority of the union by engaging in a war against the non-complying states.

1813 T. Jefferson Let. 24 June in Writings (1984) 1284 Even in the non-complying States, these bills would make their way, and supplant the unfunded paper of their banks, by their solidity, by the universality of their currency, and by their receivability for customs and taxes.

1885 Dict. National Biogr. IV. 414/2 In 1775 Berwick, in common with several other non-complying scholars, was deprived of his scholarship, ostensibly because he had failed to reside in college as regularly as the statutes demanded.

1941 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 35 495 Organized social compulsion imposed both private and governmental boycott on non-complying employers.

1995 Jrnl. Politics 57 353 The three states with operating LLRW [= low level radioactive waste] disposal facilities..eventually are permitted to deny access to waste from noncomplying states.