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Definition of nonconformist:

  • (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
  • (adjective) not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion

Sentence Examples:

Nonconformists were persecuted everywhere.

He is not a congenital and inveterate nonconformist.

And he was a most cheerful nonconformist withal.

They gently blamed the scruples of the nonconformists.

Lacey being a nonconformist, would have meant social ostracism.

The Sacramental test for Protestant nonconformists was abolished.

He was obviously embarrassed at being the only nonconformist.

That gaunt female who looks like the Nonconformist conscience?

The Nonconformist conscience then, as now, was a ticklish thing.

They could hardly be Protestant Nonconformists in these early days.

He forbade the entrance into office of nonconformists as lecturers or chaplains.

It is as much the property of the nonconformist as of the conformist.

The Low Churchmen stood between the nonconformists and the rigid conformists.

Her persecution of the Protestant nonconformists was marked by even greater injustice.

He detested Nonconformists (a young lady who joined them was "an odious wench").

The Protestant nonconformists had not yet learned toleration in the school of suffering.

This, however, Philip declined to do, and he entered a nonconformist seminary instead.

Nonconformist maids of established reputations giggled, and their young men cackled like geese.

With some, indeed, especially among the poor persecuted nonconformists, the case was otherwise.

Born of old nonconformist stock, the elder Spencer was a man of absolute punctuality.

The law was still cruelly harsh to Roman Catholics, Quakers, and all Nonconformists.

Yet, Puritan though he was, he was extremely and often unfairly antagonistic to Nonconformists.

Anything that love of ease did not accomplish, the flattery of the defeated Nonconformists achieved.

The people of Upton, great and small, conformist or nonconformist, were proud of their rector.

There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a nonconformist conscience.

Laud became arch-bishop in that year and began a rigorous enforcement of the laws against nonconformists.

The nonconformists were attracted by his personal piety, though repelled by its ecclesiastical apparel.

In the education controversy of 1870 he took an important part, ably championing the Nonconformist position.

Many of the clergy fled, and the places of some were occupied by the ejected Nonconformists.

The clergy looked on Nonconformists through conservative glasses, and saw a rabble of fanatics and rebels.

He had been conspicuous as a persecutor of nonconformists and a champion of the doctrine of passive obedience.

Nonconformists might object, as they had always objected, to paying for the propagation of obnoxious dogmas.

Conformists and Nonconformists had heartily joined in enacting penal laws of extreme severity against the Papists.

Nonconformist worship was made punishable by fine and imprisonment, and on the third offense by transportation.

The nonconformist sects were the stronghold of the merchant class and spread rapidly in the American colonies.

Nonconformists are said to be persons who cannot form anything, and a tartan is assumed to be an inhabitant of Tartary.

And many of the Anglicans, in their abhorrence of protestant nonconformists, played into the hands of the common enemy.

The Nonconformist conscience exposed Irish Home Rulers to painful humiliation and possible ruin by forbidding them to follow the political leader of their choice to whom they had deliberately renewed their allegiance.

And this while we are yet forced to recognize excellent special qualities as well as the general English energy and honesty, and a number of emergent humane individuals, in both nonconformists and aristocracy.

And we Nonconformists are quite willing to assert our priesthood in opposition to the claims of a class, and are as willing to forget it, should the question of the duties of the priest come into view.

Some year or so ago, for example, there was a quite serious discussion, which began, I believe, in a weekly paper devoted to the interests of various nonconformist religious organizations, about the proper length for a novel.

And they succeeded in gaining their confidence, not because they were the best people to have their minds and morals in charge, but for the very same reason that such Nonconformists succeeded in England.

Though the Presbyterians were confined to the nonconformist clergy and to a comparatively small number among them, they were rising in importance, and were accorded sympathetic recognition as a section of the Puritan party.

It was written in 1702, the first year of Anne's reign, when the strong Tory influence in the government seemed likely to bring back the persecution of Nonconformists which had ceased in the time of William.

We have heard a great deal lately about what people that know very little about it, are pleased to call 'the Nonconformist conscience,' I take the compliment, which is not intended, but is conveyed by the word.

The Nonconformists (for, contrary to the opinion sometimes expressed on this subject, there were Nonconformists, known by that name, long before there were Separatists and Independents) were at first dealt with in a comparatively gentle manner.

The Oxford University Act of 1854 and the Cambridge University Act of 1856 opened the two ancient Universities to Nonconformists, though the highest degrees and all the important offices were still retained by the Establishment.

He walked slowly, his head bent deep in thought, realizing for the first time the exact nature of the extraordinary compact which he had made with the little nonconformist who had chosen him for a traveling companion.

Such proceedings, at first sight, appear as so much progress towards religious liberty; but there is ground for believing that the reference to the statute against Nonconformists, only served to cover some relief designed for the Papists.

As if by common consent, the conversation never turned on the Plague, but they talked of other passing events, of the trials of their friends, and of the laws that were being put in force against Nonconformists.

He has made an appeal that has moved the hearts of men and women by its religious note, and hence it is very considerably from the ranks of Nonconformists with Puritan traditions that the Independent Labour Party has been recruited.

It is enough to note here that with the Act of Uniformity and the expulsion of the Puritan clergy a new element in our religious and political history, the element of Dissent, the influence of the Nonconformist churches, comes first into play.

The consequence will be that thousands of Nonconformists will refuse to pay the rates, then the King's officers will seize and sell some of their property, and perhaps numbers of them will see the inside of prison walls before all is over.

It is no doubt true that, for a long time past, Nonconformists of different kinds have boldly asserted that they were primitive; but it must be owned that they have never taken the least pains to ascertain the actual facts of the case.