nonconformistn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌnɒnkənˈfɔːmɪst/, U.S.

/ˌnɑnkənˈfɔrməst/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, conformist n.

Etymology: < non- prefix + conformist n.With sense A. 3 compare conformist n. 3.

A. n.

a. Usually with capital initial. Originally (in the early 17th cent.): a person adhering to the doctrine but not the usages of the Church of England (now historical). Later (esp. after the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the consequent ejection from their livings of those ministers who refused to conform): a member of a Church which is separated from the Church of England; (in modern use, usually) a Protestant Dissenter.The term has been sometimes applied analogically to the Puritan section of the Church of England in the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person

recusant1581

disagreer1605

unconformitant1605

nonconformist1618

non-conformer1622

nonconformitan1622

nonconformitantc1630

inconformist1633

dissenter1639

unconformist1640

fanatic1644

non-conformant1654

withdrawer1677

non-consenter1680

non-con1681

meeting-house man1711

shit-sack1769

dissident1790

meetinger1802

chapel-goer1842

speckle-belly1874

1618 Bp. T. Morton (title) A defence of the innocencie of the three ceremonies of the Church of England. viz. The surplice, crosse after baptisme, and kneeling at the receiuing of the blessed sacrament. Diuided into two parts. In the former whereof the generall arguments vrged by the non-conformists..are answered.

1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation To Rdr. p. v There is not ten of an hundred, which separate from the Church of England, but are moved first thereto..by the Doctrines of the Nonconformists.

1665 Act 17 Chas. II c. 2 (title) An Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 125 I suppose the Nonconformists value themselves tho upon their Conscience and not their numbers.

1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 57 The Garments were continued which soon after divided the Reformers among themselves, and gave rise to the two parties of Conformists and Non-conformists.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. 52 The second species of non-conformists are those who offend through a mistaken or perverse zeal. Such were esteemed by our laws, enacted since the time of the reformation, to be papists and protestant dissenters.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 6 That salvation might be found in the Church of Rome..was admitted by all divines of the Anglican communion and by the most illustrious Non~conformists.

1885 Church Q. 21 126 Cartwright was a Nonconformist, not a Separatist; he hated schism as much as episcopacy.

1912 W. B. Selbie Nonconformity xii. 225 Here and there..Nonconformists will still often be subject to certain social disadvantages.

1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour xii. 157 By Protestants we mean to refer to the main ‘nonconformist’ denominations such as Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists.

1986 E. Longford Pebbled Shore (1988) ii. 17 Baptists in general were not the most relaxed of Nonconformists.

b. More generally: any Christian who does not assent to the doctrine or usages of an established church. Also in extended use of other religions.

ΚΠ

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 74 Which of these two [sc. Guelphs and Ghibellines] were the Nonconformists in those dayes.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. 51 Non-conformists are of two sorts: first, such as absent themselves from the divine worship in the established church, through total irreligion.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. 205 Andrew Macdonald..then officiated as minister to a small congregation of Episcopalian nonconformists.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 543/2 Jains, the most numerous and influential sect of heretics, or nonconformists to the Brahmanical system.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 82/1 The nonconformists [in Russia] enjoying, as a rule, a greater degree of prosperity than their Orthodox neighbours.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 758/2 The middle and lower parts of the Bukhtarma valley have been colonized since the 18th century by runaway Russian peasants—serfs and nonconformists (Raskolniks)—who created there a free republic on Chinese territory.

1931 Quest Apr. 17/1 I suppose you Jews would call us Nonconformists because we worship in our own Mountain instead of your Jerusalem Temple.

1990 R. Graham God's Dominion xv. 334 In 1528 a couple of hundred of these nonconformists..organized the first ‘Bruderhof’ (Society of Brothers) around the principle of communal ownership.

2. A person who fails or refuses to conform to a particular practice or course of action.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour > one who

erratic1623

exorbitant1627

inconformable1633

non-conformant1654

original1675

nonconformista1677

eccentric1832

originalist1835

Bohemian1843

oddball1943

antisocial1945

left fielder1953

boho1958

alternative1982

a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 184 Is it just..that I should be a non-conformist either in the publick sorrow or joy?

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 57 They are State-Recusants, politic Nonconformists, that..cannot comply with the present Government.

1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice ii. 11 He..comes hither hourly to perform his Devotions to me, but in such a slovenly manner; 'tis such a Non-Conformist to all decent Ceremonies.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. lvi. 370 By his own dress he shewed, that he was no Stoical non-conformist to the fashion of the world.

1805 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled vi. 197 (note) Master Johnny Randolph, has of late been attempting..to bully the nonconformists of his party into genuine Republicanism.

1895 H. Parkes To Eleanor in Sonnets But well thou know'st the world is not for them—The social nonconformists who contemn Or disobey the whitened laws.

1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) iv. 74 A certain number of seasoned nonconformists and dissenters, sexual deviants, feather-bedders, alcoholics, impostors.

1979 C. James Pillars of Hercules iii. xi. 122 Holmes was a nonconformist in a conformist age, yet still won all the conformist rewards. It was a double whammy.

1993 Times 22 Mar. 11/1 These stout-hearted non-conformists are, if Nick Budgen is to be believed, at the mercy of formidably behatted women constituency chairmen.

3. A noctuid moth, Lithophane lamda, with mottled purplish-grey forewings, found in northern Europe, Russia, and North America. Usually in form the Nonconformist.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Caradrinidae > lithopane lamda (nonconformist)

nonconformist1869

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 428/2 The Nonconformist... Their colour is bluish-gray in some specimens, prettily varied with darker and lighter gray in others.

1961 H. M. Edelsten & D. S. Fletcher South's Moths Brit. Isles (new ed.) I. 228 The Nonconformist (Lithophane lamda, Fab.).

1983 R. I. Lorimer in J. Heath & A. M. Emmet Moths & Butterflies Great Brit. & Ireland X. 72/2 Lithophane lamda (Fabricius). The Nonconformist... Probably a very rare immigrant.

B. adj.

Nonconforming; relating, belonging to, or characteristic of a nonconformist.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [adjective]

dissentiousa1568

unconformed?1608

unconformable1611

unconforming1622

unconformist1640

nonconformist1641

dissenting1644

nonconforming1646

non-conform1648

non-conformable1653

unconform1655

fanatical1678

non-consenting1680

nonconformistical1808

dissident1837

Dissenterish1841

unconformitable1888

chapel1946

1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 90 The Church of England hath three maine Divisions: the Conformist, the Non-Conformist and the Separatist.

1669 G. Whitehead (title) The glory of Christ's light within expelling darkness; being the sun of the controversie between the..Quakers, and some non-conformist priests.

1716 I. Mather Disquis. conc. Eccl. Councils Pref. p. v Mr. [William] Bradshaw, an eminent Nonconformist Minister..was the Author of that Judicious Script [sc. English Puritanism, 1605]. It is perfect Congregationalism.

1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 422 These non-conformist ministers were desirous to justify their conduct by the opinions of foreign divines.

1819 W. J. Fox Lect. ii, in Wks. (1865) I. 169 The charge of persecution was applied alike to Catholic and Nonconformist Churches.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 2 How are the nonconformist Children to be provided for?

1880 Sat. Rev. No. 1294. 199 There had already been secret colloguings with the chief Nonconformist leaders about the Burials Bill.

1928 N.Y. Times 24 Dec. in Amer. Speech 4 (1929) 202 One of the few other Nonconformist churches to hold a service..will be the Broadway Congregational Tabernacle.

1947 K. S. Sorabji Mi contra Fa x. 87 He is apparently unaware..that he is..submitting himself to the judgment of his own upper classes... This is surely nonconformist Pecksniffery gone mad.

1966 I. Deutscher Marxism in our Time (1972) vi. 162 The accused men have proclaimed themselves to be, and have behaved like, devoted nonconformist Communists, profoundly convinced of the truth and validity of revolutionary Marxism.

1991 New Scientist 1 June 46/2 One of the fascinating things about him [sc. Michael Faraday]..is his lifelong membership of a small nonconformist sect, the Sandemanians. This tiny movement originated in one of the fissiparous dissensions of 18th-century Scottish religion.

Compounds

nonconformist conscience n. now chiefly historical a strong and scrupulous sense of moral rectitude; the application of high moral standards to those in public, esp. political, life; cf. Puritan conscience n. at puritan n. and adj. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1890 Let. in Times 28 Nov. 8/6 The minimum demand of the great Nonconformist party is the..abdication of Mr. Parnell... Nothing less will satisfy the Nonconformist conscience now.

1893 O. Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan iii. 90 There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.

1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 II. 320/2 In politics a radical, he helped to make the phrase ‘the nonconformist conscience’, by challenging the title to take part in political life of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke after the divorce case of Crawford v. Crawford in 1896.

1997 N. Ferguson Virtual Hist. (1998) iv. 243 The non-conformist conscience, the Cobdenite belief in free trade and peace..—these were just some of the Liberal traditions which seemed to imply a pacific policy.

Derivatives

nonconforˈmistical adj. characteristic of nonconformists.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [adjective]

dissentiousa1568

unconformed?1608

unconformable1611

unconforming1622

unconformist1640

nonconformist1641

dissenting1644

nonconforming1646

non-conform1648

non-conformable1653

unconform1655

fanatical1678

non-consenting1680

nonconformistical1808

dissident1837

Dissenterish1841

unconformitable1888

chapel1946

1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 66 The ‘Monthly Review’..notices the book with civil Non-conformistical dullness.

nonconforˈmistically adv. in the manner of nonconformists.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [adverb]

nonconformistically1891

1891 Sat. Rev. 21 Mar. 343/1 It is..the most Nonconformistically conscientious thing in the world.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nonconformist
释义	nonconformistn.adj. Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈfɔːmɪst/, U.S. /ˌnɑnkənˈfɔrməst/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, conformist n. Etymology: < non- prefix + conformist n.With sense A. 3 compare conformist n. 3. A. n. 1. a. Usually with capital initial. Originally (in the early 17th cent.): a person adhering to the doctrine but not the usages of the Church of England (now historical). Later (esp. after the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the consequent ejection from their livings of those ministers who refused to conform): a member of a Church which is separated from the Church of England; (in modern use, usually) a Protestant Dissenter.The term has been sometimes applied analogically to the Puritan section of the Church of England in the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person recusant1581 disagreer1605 unconformitant1605 nonconformist1618 non-conformer1622 nonconformitan1622 nonconformitantc1630 inconformist1633 dissenter1639 unconformist1640 fanatic1644 non-conformant1654 withdrawer1677 non-consenter1680 non-con1681 meeting-house man1711 shit-sack1769 dissident1790 meetinger1802 chapel-goer1842 speckle-belly1874 1618 Bp. T. Morton (title) A defence of the innocencie of the three ceremonies of the Church of England. viz. The surplice, crosse after baptisme, and kneeling at the receiuing of the blessed sacrament. Diuided into two parts. In the former whereof the generall arguments vrged by the non-conformists..are answered. 1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation To Rdr. p. v There is not ten of an hundred, which separate from the Church of England, but are moved first thereto..by the Doctrines of the Nonconformists. 1665 Act 17 Chas. II c. 2 (title) An Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 125 I suppose the Nonconformists value themselves tho upon their Conscience and not their numbers. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 57 The Garments were continued which soon after divided the Reformers among themselves, and gave rise to the two parties of Conformists and Non-conformists. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. 52 The second species of non-conformists are those who offend through a mistaken or perverse zeal. Such were esteemed by our laws, enacted since the time of the reformation, to be papists and protestant dissenters. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 6 That salvation might be found in the Church of Rome..was admitted by all divines of the Anglican communion and by the most illustrious Non~conformists. 1885 Church Q. 21 126 Cartwright was a Nonconformist, not a Separatist; he hated schism as much as episcopacy. 1912 W. B. Selbie Nonconformity xii. 225 Here and there..Nonconformists will still often be subject to certain social disadvantages. 1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour xii. 157 By Protestants we mean to refer to the main ‘nonconformist’ denominations such as Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists. 1986 E. Longford Pebbled Shore (1988) ii. 17 Baptists in general were not the most relaxed of Nonconformists. b. More generally: any Christian who does not assent to the doctrine or usages of an established church. Also in extended use of other religions. ΚΠ 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 74 Which of these two [sc. Guelphs and Ghibellines] were the Nonconformists in those dayes. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. 51 Non-conformists are of two sorts: first, such as absent themselves from the divine worship in the established church, through total irreligion. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. 205 Andrew Macdonald..then officiated as minister to a small congregation of Episcopalian nonconformists. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 543/2 Jains, the most numerous and influential sect of heretics, or nonconformists to the Brahmanical system. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 82/1 The nonconformists [in Russia] enjoying, as a rule, a greater degree of prosperity than their Orthodox neighbours. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 758/2 The middle and lower parts of the Bukhtarma valley have been colonized since the 18th century by runaway Russian peasants—serfs and nonconformists (Raskolniks)—who created there a free republic on Chinese territory. 1931 Quest Apr. 17/1 I suppose you Jews would call us Nonconformists because we worship in our own Mountain instead of your Jerusalem Temple. 1990 R. Graham God's Dominion xv. 334 In 1528 a couple of hundred of these nonconformists..organized the first ‘Bruderhof’ (Society of Brothers) around the principle of communal ownership. 2. A person who fails or refuses to conform to a particular practice or course of action. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour > one who erratic1623 exorbitant1627 inconformable1633 non-conformant1654 original1675 nonconformista1677 eccentric1832 originalist1835 Bohemian1843 oddball1943 antisocial1945 left fielder1953 boho1958 alternative1982 a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 184 Is it just..that I should be a non-conformist either in the publick sorrow or joy? a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 57 They are State-Recusants, politic Nonconformists, that..cannot comply with the present Government. 1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice ii. 11 He..comes hither hourly to perform his Devotions to me, but in such a slovenly manner; 'tis such a Non-Conformist to all decent Ceremonies. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. lvi. 370 By his own dress he shewed, that he was no Stoical non-conformist to the fashion of the world. 1805 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled vi. 197 (note) Master Johnny Randolph, has of late been attempting..to bully the nonconformists of his party into genuine Republicanism. 1895 H. Parkes To Eleanor in Sonnets But well thou know'st the world is not for them—The social nonconformists who contemn Or disobey the whitened laws. 1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) iv. 74 A certain number of seasoned nonconformists and dissenters, sexual deviants, feather-bedders, alcoholics, impostors. 1979 C. James Pillars of Hercules iii. xi. 122 Holmes was a nonconformist in a conformist age, yet still won all the conformist rewards. It was a double whammy. 1993 Times 22 Mar. 11/1 These stout-hearted non-conformists are, if Nick Budgen is to be believed, at the mercy of formidably behatted women constituency chairmen. 3. A noctuid moth, Lithophane lamda, with mottled purplish-grey forewings, found in northern Europe, Russia, and North America. Usually in form the Nonconformist. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Caradrinidae > lithopane lamda (nonconformist) nonconformist1869 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 428/2 The Nonconformist... Their colour is bluish-gray in some specimens, prettily varied with darker and lighter gray in others. 1961 H. M. Edelsten & D. S. Fletcher South's Moths Brit. Isles (new ed.) I. 228 The Nonconformist (Lithophane lamda, Fab.). 1983 R. I. Lorimer in J. Heath & A. M. Emmet Moths & Butterflies Great Brit. & Ireland X. 72/2 Lithophane lamda (Fabricius). The Nonconformist... Probably a very rare immigrant. B. adj. Nonconforming; relating, belonging to, or characteristic of a nonconformist. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [adjective] dissentiousa1568 unconformed?1608 unconformable1611 unconforming1622 unconformist1640 nonconformist1641 dissenting1644 nonconforming1646 non-conform1648 non-conformable1653 unconform1655 fanatical1678 non-consenting1680 nonconformistical1808 dissident1837 Dissenterish1841 unconformitable1888 chapel1946 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 90 The Church of England hath three maine Divisions: the Conformist, the Non-Conformist and the Separatist. 1669 G. Whitehead (title) The glory of Christ's light within expelling darkness; being the sun of the controversie between the..Quakers, and some non-conformist priests. 1716 I. Mather Disquis. conc. Eccl. Councils Pref. p. v Mr. [William] Bradshaw, an eminent Nonconformist Minister..was the Author of that Judicious Script [sc. English Puritanism, 1605]. It is perfect Congregationalism. 1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 422 These non-conformist ministers were desirous to justify their conduct by the opinions of foreign divines. 1819 W. J. Fox Lect. ii, in Wks. (1865) I. 169 The charge of persecution was applied alike to Catholic and Nonconformist Churches. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 2 How are the nonconformist Children to be provided for? 1880 Sat. Rev. No. 1294. 199 There had already been secret colloguings with the chief Nonconformist leaders about the Burials Bill. 1928 N.Y. Times 24 Dec. in Amer. Speech 4 (1929) 202 One of the few other Nonconformist churches to hold a service..will be the Broadway Congregational Tabernacle. 1947 K. S. Sorabji Mi contra Fa x. 87 He is apparently unaware..that he is..submitting himself to the judgment of his own upper classes... This is surely nonconformist Pecksniffery gone mad. 1966 I. Deutscher Marxism in our Time (1972) vi. 162 The accused men have proclaimed themselves to be, and have behaved like, devoted nonconformist Communists, profoundly convinced of the truth and validity of revolutionary Marxism. 1991 New Scientist 1 June 46/2 One of the fascinating things about him [sc. Michael Faraday]..is his lifelong membership of a small nonconformist sect, the Sandemanians. This tiny movement originated in one of the fissiparous dissensions of 18th-century Scottish religion. Compounds nonconformist conscience n. now chiefly historical a strong and scrupulous sense of moral rectitude; the application of high moral standards to those in public, esp. political, life; cf. Puritan conscience n. at puritan n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1890 Let. in Times 28 Nov. 8/6 The minimum demand of the great Nonconformist party is the..abdication of Mr. Parnell... Nothing less will satisfy the Nonconformist conscience now. 1893 O. Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan iii. 90 There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 II. 320/2 In politics a radical, he helped to make the phrase ‘the nonconformist conscience’, by challenging the title to take part in political life of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke after the divorce case of Crawford v. Crawford in 1896. 1997 N. Ferguson Virtual Hist. (1998) iv. 243 The non-conformist conscience, the Cobdenite belief in free trade and peace..—these were just some of the Liberal traditions which seemed to imply a pacific policy. Derivatives nonconforˈmistical adj. characteristic of nonconformists. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [adjective] dissentiousa1568 unconformed?1608 unconformable1611 unconforming1622 unconformist1640 nonconformist1641 dissenting1644 nonconforming1646 non-conform1648 non-conformable1653 unconform1655 fanatical1678 non-consenting1680 nonconformistical1808 dissident1837 Dissenterish1841 unconformitable1888 chapel1946 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 66 The ‘Monthly Review’..notices the book with civil Non-conformistical dullness. nonconforˈmistically adv. in the manner of nonconformists. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [adverb] nonconformistically1891 1891 Sat. Rev. 21 Mar. 343/1 It is..the most Nonconformistically conscientious thing in the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1618
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