Nonconformist

It was through this crisis that the term Nonconformist obtained it technical meaning.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

He is amazed to hear that his host, though himself a Churchman, should be quite strongly pleading for justice to the Nonconformist that the Nonconformist should be allowed to educate his children in the way he thinks fit.

The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress 1914

IT can scarce be needed, for most of the readers into whose hands this volume may come, to commend a writer so well known as the Nonconformist worthy, Matthew Mead, or to bespeak respectful and devout perusal for a book, so long and widely circulated, and so greatly useful, as has been his treatise, "The Almost Christian."

The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856

However from 1662, when the Fourth Act of Uniformity had the effect of ejecting from the benefices, acquired during the Commonwealth, a large number of ministers of Puritan proclivities, and of constraining them to organize themselves as separatist sects, the term "Nonconformist" crystallized into the technical name for such sects.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Thus, 'Nonconformist' does not denote everybody who fails to conform.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

The word "Nonconformist" is objectionable for a similar reason.

The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864

One, whose name I forget, was a journalist, correspondent for the 'Nonconformist'.

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862

"That sounds religious, doesn't it -- a kind of Nonconformist business?

The Trespasser, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

"That sounds religious, doesn't it -- a kind of Nonconformist business?

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

"That sounds religious, doesn't it -- a kind of Nonconformist business?

The Trespasser, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897