Nonconformist

Examples

• All

• See Brown "Nonconformist" about the importance of such characters in Martin Gaite's works.

  Academic text (1997)

• Though their campaign failed, nearly all of the legal disabilities of nonconformists were gradually dismantled.

  Blog text (20)

• Hundreds of nonconformists were defecting to establishment church services, many becoming formal communicants.

  Academic text (2006)

• Nonconformists and Puritans stressed various aspects of autonomy and the inner life.

  Academic text (1990)

• Perhaps I would even hear such excruciatingly formal circumlocutions as James wrote to his publisher, Frederick Macmillan: "Since you have given me leave to keep the article from the Nonconformist, I will take the liberty of doing so."

  Fiction book (1994)

• The first branch included dissenting sects (I shall refer to them all as "Nonconformists") such as the Pietists in Germany and the Netherlands and the Methodists and Quakers in England.

  Academic text (1990)

• Many Nonconformists established their own places of worship outside of the Church of England.

• The Nonconformists, who rejected the doctrines of the established church, played a vital role in English history.

Synonyms

P

Protestant

vsNonconformist

59 3.7

A person who belongs to a Christian church that broke away from the Catholic Church

is the England-specific group of those not in the established national church

C

Congregationalist

vsNonconformist

1 7.9

A person who belongs to a church where each local group runs itself

is the broader England category for people outside the established national church

C

chapelgoer

vsNonconformist

• UK

8.6

A person who regularly goes to a Protestant chapel and is not a member of the Church of England

is about formal belonging to such churches rather than just attending services

Antonyms

A

Anglican

6 5.7

A person who belongs to the Church of England or to a church linked to it

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology