nonconformist in English

noun
1
a person whose behavior or views do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices.
This view prevailed among nonconformists , of course, not least among them Cartwright himself and Richard Baxter a century later.
2
a member of a Protestant church in England that dissents from the established Anglican Church.
The Church people and Nonconformists willingly joined together for this good cause, and made the undertaking very successful.
adjective
1
of or characterized by behavior or views that do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices.
Priestley's nonconformist views and his support for the French Revolution brought him into conflict with the Government and many people, including George III, believed he was an atheist.
2
of or relating to Nonconformists or their principles and practices.
Dr Masters said that these principles were at one time taken for granted by Nonconformist preachers.

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1. 2 antonyms for Anglican: chapelgoer, Nonconformist

2. Oscar Wilde was a noted nonconformist.

3. His father was a Nonconformist minister.

4. Their rabidly nonconformist deportment has made them legendary.

5. Indeed it had and the Nonconformist minister stood at the very centre of the Nonconformist world we are discussing.http://Sentencedict.com

6. The third division was the propagation of Nonconformist principles.

7. Brought up in a Nonconformist household, he remained deeply religious.

8. Gandhi's nonconformist ways tend to appall and alienate secular-minded observers.

9. Gandhi's nonconformist ways tend to Appall and alienate secular-minded observers

10. An eccentric or nonconformist person, especially a member of a counterculture.

11. Only the small, nonconformist fraternity were concerned with private and lyrical values.

12. Synonyms for Antiestablishment include nonconservative, anticonventional, antitraditional, broad-minded, large-minded, liberal, nonconformist, nonconventional

13. Arthur Newsholme, Newman's older colleague, had his origins in a similar nonconformist background.

14. Synonyms for 'Conceptually': abstract, central, theoretical, popular, orthodox, conceptual, metaphysical, utopian, nonconformist, revisionist

15. Synonyms for 'Ahistorical': abstract, central, theoretical, popular, orthodox, conceptual, metaphysical, utopian, nonconformist, revisionist

16. He felt out of place, a nonconformist in a society where conformity was highly prized.

17. She prided herself on being a nonconformist, on getting results by breaking the rules.

18. He was educated in a Nonconformist academy; his abilities lay in mathematics, engineering, and business administration.

19. The child of a nonconformist father learnt to drink deep of the Catholic tradition.

20. They are often indistinguishable in external appearance from the larger nonconformist chapels in the next street.

21. It was also a positive term with none of the negative connotations of Nonconformist or Dissenter.

22. The building's hall is still frequently a venue for those exercising their Nonconformist Consciences on current political controversies.

23. This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church.

24. There became room for younger, different, mainly nonconformist leaders to assert themselves, not necessarily by parliamentary means.

25. Naturally, the overall content of nonconformist works reads like a list of the worst taboos of Socialist Realist theory.

26. In Southwark in December 1681 fines amounting to £680 were imposed on just twenty-two Nonconformist ministers.

27. Secondly, about half of those who did attend for worship chose to go to a Nonconformist chapel.

28. When I was young, I prided myself as a nonconformist in the conservative U.S. state I live in, Kansas.

29. As a Nonconformist he was not admitted to the BA degree until 18 the first dissenter to be admitted.

30. By and large the Nonconformist churches supported the war, destroying themselves as a significant political force in the process.

31. It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise.

32. The situation had been transformed radically since the mid eighteenth century when Nonconformist groups were relatively small and few in number.

33. Nonconformist borrowers were thrown a lifeline only five years ago when this new breed of mortgage lender was born.

34. 21 A devout Calvinist Methodist and strict advocate of temperance, Davies became a patron of Nonconformist and other charitable and educational causes.

35. 27 Ramsey was a former nonconformist who had not lost the idea that Churches must be free from entanglement with the State.

36. (ca.1589-1665), an English minister, descended from the Burgesses of Batcombe, Somerset; and Anthony Burges or Burgess (died 1664), a Nonconformist

37. 13 A devout Calvinist Methodist and strict advocate of temperance, Davies became a patron of Nonconformist and other charitable and educational causes.

38. Championing the cause of the solitary artisan comes naturally to Kalin, a boyishly ambitious nonconformist who wouldn't look out of place at the local skate park.

39. Beatnik (plural Beatniks) A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and therewith is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior; A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.

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