2. Noun. (plural of nonconformist) ¹
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Definition of Nonconformists
1. nonconformist [n] - See also: nonconformist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonconformists
Literary usage of Nonconformists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"The main argument was rather political than religious. Nonconformists ... One of
the most effective charges against the Nonconformists was that they were ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"Nonconformists had been rebels before, and were still rebels at heart. ...
One of the most effective charges against the Nonconformists was that they were ..."
3. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1871)
"But though the old Puritans were so zealous against a separation, they had,
according to Stillingfleet, the same reasons for it as the Nonconformists after ..."
4. Publications (1848)
"I confess the nonconformists have suffered also; but they that have suffered for
this cause, have far exceeded, in not only witnessing to those grounds of ..."
5. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1907)
"The Nonconformists met with similar treatment because they desired some change
extending from a modification to the total abolition of the existing system ..."
6. The Elements of English Constitutional History: From the Earliest Times to by Francis Charles Montague (1903)
"Marriages and Burials of Catholics and Nonconformists. ... All Catholics and some
Nonconformists entertained the strongest objection to such baptisms. ..."
7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"In 1565 the law began to be more rigidly enforced, and many nonconformists were
deprived of their preferments, and many were imprisoned. ..."
8. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1875)
"During this reign, indeed, several attempts were made to effect a reconciliation
between the church and nonconformists;8 but the irreconcilable differences ..."
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