(n.) One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
Example Sentences:
(1) And many who shouted the odds about a nonconformist, anti-establishment lifestyle are now rats in the ratrace: even as a poet I seem to spend most of my time filling in forms, teaching, going to meetings, commuting – hardly the bohemian fantasy.
(2) Patterns of food exclusion and of frequency of consumption of 35 foods and food groups were consistent with classifications as conformists or nonconformists.
(3) He was the nonconformist hero of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in 2007 and the hedonistic historian in Rattigan’s After The Dance at the National in 2010 .
(4) Dr Pangloss, aka Gove, took the view that journalism was a rough sort of trade, attracting nonconformists or, to put it another way, the reckless types who might not be above hacking a phone or breaking a law or two.
(5) His journey through Fettes College, Oxford, the bar and high churchery had given him not one gene of old Labour nonconformist puritanism.
(6) Individuals who were willing to grant such rights to homosexuals as teaching in college, speaking in a local community, and removing a book from a local library written by a homosexual and favorable to homosexuality, tended to be well educated, young, Jewish or nonreligious, from urban areas, raised in the Northeast or Pacific states, and willing to provide freedom of expression to people with nonconformist political ideas.
(7) "R ebel rebel, you've torn your dress," observed David Bowie in 1974, setting the bar rather low for aspiring nonconformists.
(8) "Here's someone who's one of the most nonconformist individuals you can think of.
(9) For example, the nonconformist tradition Labour and the liberals inherited saw gambling as one of the worst forms of exploitation.
(10) Otherwise difficulties arise in road traffic from the psychiatric point of view through the nonconformist behavior of the normal citizen who apparently finds it difficult to realize the principles of self-responsibility.
(11) An instrument for differentiating between individuals exhibiting conformist and nonconformist or nontraditional food consumption patterns was developed and used for recruitment and identification of respondents for a study of food-related behavior and attitudes.
(12) We are here to remember a hero,” said Dr Usman Chaudhary, opening the service at the British Muslim Heritage Centre, a grade II* listed building in south Manchester which originally housed a seminary for nonconformist Christian ministers.
(13) However, parents, teachers, and institutions must display considerably more flexibility and tolerance towards individually minded persons who behave in seemingly nonconformist ways.
(14) Clinical and psychological examinations helped identify two basic patterns of psychic adaptation to stressful flying activities which manifested as asthenic trends and predisposition to nonconformist behaviour.
(15) Within months a new religion had emerged – spiritualism – a mixture of liberal, nonconformist values and fireside chats with dead people.
(16) Prince: a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent | Alexis Petridis Read more Intense press scrutiny didn’t seem to agree with Prince, who shunned interviews and in 1985 announced his retirement from live performing.
(17) Even this august organ, which sprang from the loins of nonconformist dissent, astounded many readers with its broad acres of Pope reverencing.
(18) And today I cried at least three or four times.” Prince: a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent | Alexis Petridis Read more Inside First Avenue, the mood was electric, as the roughly 1,500 fans fortunate to make it inside the ultimate Prince farewell party danced the night away, appreciating the special permit secured by the club, which allowed it to stay open until 6 or 7am on Friday.
(19) I'd had my rationales for this, the main one being that I hadn't wanted to impose too zealously nonconformist a lifestyle on my family.
(20) Neofascism is unlike its 1930s predecessor, in that today a global elite of the absurdly wealthy and influential is steering an ideology that wants a shrinking government, falling taxes on high incomes, and authoritarian control over recalcitrants, nonconformists, collective bodies and "losers" in the market society, including the disabled and young unemployed.
Nonconformity
Definition:
(n.) Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The connections between childhood gender nonconformity (assessed by the Freund Feminine Gender Identity Scale, or FGI) and adult genitoerotic role (assessed by a sex history) were examined.
(2) A practical consequence of our study is that nonconformity of the two tests may occur.
(3) The MMPI and a nonconformity questionnaire were first administered to 100 male college students.
(4) With parliament mostly an electoral college of candidates for government, there was no purchase in nonconformity.
(5) By using these approaches, a conformational epitope expressed only on the VSG 1.5 surface coat of viable trypanosomes was detected, and two nonconformationally determined epitope clusters were recognized within the subsurface V region of the VSG 1.5 molecule.
(6) Items on the Pd scale and 101 additional MMPI items that correlated significantly with the nonconformity questionnaire were then rated by 38 other male college students for apparent relationship to psychopathology.
(7) The frequency of pathogenic bacteria, "apathogenic" bacteria and mixed cultures is given, divided into conforming and nonconforming culture results of puncture and midstream urines.
(8) Sixteen items loaded on the achievement factor (hero role), 11 items the entertainment factor (mascot role), 9 items on the nonconformity factor (scapegoat role), 7 items on the emotional sensitivity factor (lost child role), and 3 items on the domesticity factor (enabler role).
(9) Although it is not a substitute for a more detailed dietary history, rapid identification of nonconforming food-related behavior is possible with the Food-Related Behavior Characterization Instrument.
(10) Twenty-two of 61 homosexual men reported having experienced few, if any, of the gender conforming behaviors and most, if not all, of the gender nonconforming behaviors.
(11) Cotwins from concordant monozygotic pairs were very similar for childhood gender nonconformity.
(12) The position seems supported that male gender nonconformity is viewed more seriously than female gender nonconformity.
(13) An inventory encompassing six social-psychological dimensions that have been found to be related to problem drinking (Attitude toward Drinking, Environmental Support for Heavy Drinking, Impulsivity and Nonconformity, Alienation and Maladjustment, Looseness of Social Controls, and Unfavorable Expectations) was used to determine what areas of behavior were seen to change as an alcoholic improved.
(14) The Department refused hospitalization to 42 patients because of the nonconformity to the indications and contraindications to heart transplantation.
(15) A review of cross-sectional and prospective research in both normal and clinical samples suggests that increased risk of divorce is associated with socially nonconforming, impulsive, and stimulus-seeking personality traits.
(16) Commitment to these conventional beliefs is inversely associated with nonconforming behavior.
(17) Another online petition says the film is “erasing the contributions of of-color queer and gender-nonconforming activists”.
(18) The gravest injustice perpetrated against a woman is always trumped by the most minor suggestion of a woman's nonconformity.
(19) On Facebook, Giannopoulos wrote that he wore the pin “to represent my gratitude for the LGBTQ community” and carried the fan “to celebrate the joy and freedom of gender nonconformity”.
(20) Seven polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies were characterized for their ability to react specifically with either conformational or nonconformational epitopes of the HPV-1 virion.