nonconformity
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nonconformity¹
- /nɑnkənˈfɔɹmɪdi/ Canada, US
noun nonconformities · Non-conformity · non-conformity · Nonconformity
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A refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or practice of a state religion, especially refusal by other Protestants to conform to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England; the principles or practice of nonconformists; nonconformists as a class.
Here then is S. Paul's Judaeus in abscondito, a Jew inwardly. Here is the true Recusant, and the true Non-conformitan; Au∣diunt, sed non faciunt: he comes to hear, but never comes to doe; there's Recusancy: he confesses that he hath received good instru∣ction, but he refufes to conform himself unto
Similar: dissent, dissentism, inconformity, nonconformism, nonconformitancy · Opposite: conformity
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A rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.
But as no man, that does acknowledg the Authority and Divinity of the Scriptures, can easily satisfie himself in living in the Breach of any of it's known rules and precepts, without the countenance and protection (such as it is) of some vain imagination, and deceitful reasoning or other, so is it i
Similar: disconformity, inconformity, nonconformism · Opposite: conformity
- A type of unconformity in which a nonsedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.
Nonconformity²
noun
- Alternative form of nonconformity (“refusal to conform to a state religion”).
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noun rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law
| Español | no conformidad |
|---|---|
| Français | anticonformisme |
| Deutsch | Nichtkonformität, Nonkonformität, Nonkonformismus |
| Italiano | anticonformismo |
| Ελληνικά | μη συμμόρφωση mi symmórfosi, αναντιστοιχία anantistoichía |
| עברית | נונקונפורמיסט |
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