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▪ I. † non-conˈform, a. Obs.
[non- 5. See conform a. 3.]
Nonconforming.
1679Scotl. Grievances Lauderdale's Ministry 36 He plainly turns this new Indulgence, ino a universal confinement, of the whole non-conform Ministers. 1680Spirit of Popery 16 The Nonconform Ministers scornfully rejected them. 1784J. Brown Hist. Brit. Ch. (1820) II. 112 The Nonconform ministers..presented a Supplication for liberty to administer the Lord's supper.
▪ II. non-conˈform, v.
[non- 5.]
intr. To fail to conform (to).
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 45 (1713) II. 37, I can shew you one little Yelper that Nonconforms to the whole Party. 1847Helps Friends in C. Ser. i. ii, When we talk of non-conformity, it may only be that we non-conform to the immediate sect of thought or action about us. 1852Lynch Orthodoxy in Lett. to Scattered (1872) 273 What..liberty of soul may belong to the men who non-conform to the world. |