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  • noun One who does not conform to expected norms and standards; a nonconformist.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ conformer

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Examples

  • Reading disapproval in her sister's expression, she continued: "You dear virtuous people are a little narrow in your ideas; you can't understand that there's room for the greatest difference of opinion even in a harmonious family, and that it's very silly to drive the nonconformer into rebellion.

    Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905

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