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Another word for nonconformity

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nonconformity

n.

dissent, opposition, contumaciousness, lawlessness, transgressiveness, heresy, heterodoxy, recusance, violation, breach of custom, denial, unorthodoxy, iconoclasm, uniqueness, strangeness, disobedience, unruliness, mutinousness, insubordination, recalcitrance, noncompliance, unconventionality, originality, Bohemianism, disagreement, recusancy, contumacy, obstinacy, refusal, refusing, nonagreement, disaffection, discordance, disapproval, nonconsent, rejection, nonacceptance, negation, disapprobation, opposition, objection, exception, veto, nonobservance; see also individuality 1.

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Independency, like Nonconformity, is primarily a negative term.
Erskine had little interest in the "historical criticism" of Christianity, and regarded as the only proper criterion of its truth its conformity or nonconformity with man's spiritual nature, and its adaptability or non-adaptability to man's spiritual needs.
He was ejected for Nonconformity in 1662, and was so affected by the sight of the devastation caused by the great fire of London that he died shortly afterwards, on the 29th of October 1666.
The Manchester Education Union and the Birmingham Education League had already formulated in the provinces the two opposing theories, the former standing for the preservation of denominational interests, the latter advocating secular rate-aided education as the only means of protecting Nonconformity against the Church.
Rees, History of Protestant Nonconformity (1861).

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