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Another word for nonconformist

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Noun

  1. A person who dissents from the doctrine of an established church

      1. One who dissents:
      2. A British Protestant who does not belong to the Anglican Church; Nonconformist
      3. One who refuses to accept the doctrines or usages of an established or a national church, especially a Protestant who dissents from the Church of England.
      1. A dissident person; dissenter
      2. One who disagrees; a dissenter.
      1. A person who professes a heresy; esp., a church member who holds beliefs opposed to church dogma
      2. A person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.
      1. A person who causes or participates in schism
      2. One who promotes or engages in schism.
      1. One characterized by bigoted adherence to a factional viewpoint.
      2. (Obs.) An apostate from an established church
      3. A member of any religious sect
      1. A Dissenter; Nonconformist
      2. A dissenter from an established church, especially a Protestant nonconformist.
      3. A sectarian.
      1. A person who withdraws or secedes, esp. a member of a group that has seceded from a larger group; dissenter
      2. One who secedes or advocates separation from a group, as from a nation or an established church.
      3. A person who advocates political, religious, or racial separation
    See also:

    religion

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Another word for nonconformist

Noun
      1. A Confederate soldier.
      2. A person who resists or defies authority or convention.
      3. One who engages in armed resistance against the established government of one's country
      1. An odd or unconventional person
      2. (Physics) A disk or wheel having its axis of revolution displaced from its center so that it is capable of imparting reciprocating motion.
      3. One that deviates markedly from an established norm, especially a person of odd or unconventional behavior.
      1. An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.
      2. One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
      3. A person who takes an independent stand, as in politics, from his or her party or group
      1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.
      1. One who prefers to be independent of others, as by living or working alone
      1. A person who is not satisfied with current conditions; a discontented person
      2. One who rebels against the established system:
      1. One who dissents:
      2. One who refuses to accept the doctrines or usages of an established or a national church, especially a Protestant who dissents from the Church of England.
      3. A British Protestant who does not belong to the Anglican Church; Nonconformist
      1. A dissenter.
      2. A person who dissents; dissenter
      1. An article or product used in a demonstration.
      2. A person who takes part in a public demonstration
      3. One that demonstrates, such as a participant in a public display of opinion.
      1. A member of a counterculture originating in the United States in the 1960s, typically characterized by unconventional dress and behavior, communal or transient lifestyles, opposition to war, and liberal attitudes toward sexuality and the use of marijuana and psychedelic drugs.
      2. (Slang) Any person having a similar lifestyle
      3. Any of the young people of the 1960s and 1970s who, in their alienation from conventional society, turned variously to mysticism, psychedelic drugs, communal living, etc.
      1. Any member of the various Christian churches established as a result of the Reformation
      2. A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers.
      3. (--- loosely) Any Christian not belonging to the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Church
      1. A dissident person; dissenter
      2. One who disagrees; a dissenter.
      1. A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior.
      2. The Czech dialects of Bohemia.
      3. A person born or living in Bohemia
      1. A strange or eccentric person.
      1. A person regarded as eccentric.
    See also:

    beatnik

    liberal

    radical

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Sentence Examples

  • There are about thirty nonconformist chapels, in nearly a third of which the services are Welsh.

  • GEORGE BURDER (1752-1832), English Nonconformist divine, was born in London on the 5th of June 1752.

  • JOSEPH PRIESTLEY (1733-1804), English chemist and Nonconformist minister, was born on the 13th of March 1733 at Fieldhead, a hamlet near Birstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

  • The Marriage Act 1898 dispensed with the necessity of the attendance of a registrar at marriages celebrated at a nonconformist place of worship, substituting in place thereof a person duly authorized by the trustees of the place of worship, if the persons intending to be married so desire; but the parties may, if they wish, still require the presence of the registrar.

  • It was Whig in politics and Nonconformist in theology.

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