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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-compliance
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cases which had been settled or withdrawn were removed from it and sanctions for non-compliance were announced.
▪ However, the reasons for non-compliance reported by Mangla are ambiguous.
▪ Likewise the bishops stood prepared in 1688 to accept the penalties for their non-compliance.
▪ Regrettably, but all too familiarly these days, there is a penalty for non-compliance.
▪ The problem of the uneven playing-field goes much deeper than those arising from non-compliance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
non-compliance

also noncompliance, 1680s, from non- + compliance. Related: Noncompliant.

Usage examples of "non-compliance".

But as soon as mankind have attained the capacity of being guided to their own improvement by conviction or persuasion (a period long since reached in all nations with whom we need here concern ourselves), compulsion, either in the direct form or in that of pains and penalties for non-compliance, is no longer admissible as a means to their own good, and justifiable only for the security of others.