non-conformern.

1622 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Boston i. 49 Thus haue I..laboured to free, not onely the Conformer from all vniust Censures; but euen the Non-conformer also.

1622 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Boston i. 42 The hottest, and precisest, and most scrupulous non-Conformer.

1676 Pkt. Advices to Men of Shaftesbury 35 All other Nonconformers lay no claim to a Church-National.

1689 T. Plunket Char. Good Commander 54 Deformers, not Reformers, still excite Informers, Non-conformers, to indite.

1859 Harper's Mag. Mar. 559/2 Laud certainly persecuted the Nonconformists... But the Nonconformists quite as certainly persecuted greater Nonconformers.

1876 H. Melville Clarel I. ii. xxii. 235 Not his Spinosa's starry brow (A non-conformer, ye'll allow).

1945 Amer. Hist. Rev. 50 796 Romanticism is also declared to be ‘middle class’.., yet several of its leading exponents are revealed to be..nonconformers who attacked ‘materialistic utilitarianism’, surely the acme of middle-class philosophy.

1990 N. Annan Our Age xvii. 273 They too loathed the Establishment, and welcomed the brash, the unscrupulous, the nonconformers.

1992 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 17 Apr. (BNC) 13 As a true Scottish non-conformer, he had no exaggerated respect for placemen in high office, and enjoyed jokes at the expense of the mighty.