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Conformist   /kənfˈɔrmɪst/   Listen
Conformist

noun
1.
Someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters).
adjective
1.
Marked by convention and conformity to customs or rules or styles.
2.
Adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion).  Synonym: conforming.





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"Conformist" Quotes from Famous Books



... Assembly to suppress the Quakers and Puritans.[342] In 1642, Richard Bennett and others of strong Calvinistic leanings, sent letters to Boston requesting that Puritan ministers be sent to Virginia, to minister to their non-conformist congregations.[343] The New Englanders responded readily, despatching to their southern friends three ministers of distinction—William Thompson, John Knowles and Thomas James. Despite the laws against non-conformity these men anticipated little interference with their ...
— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker
... of paternal distinction, the young reformer shone invidiously and brought his father great chagrin by his association with carpenters and weavers in their non-conformist agitations. He preached in poor halls and in the streets. The newspaper, not having arrived, he took to pamphleteering to spread his doctrines. This activity reached a crisis in 1669. Writing in his diary under date of February 12, 1669, Pepys says: "...Felling hath got me W. Pen's book against ...
— The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead • various
... Through art we are compelled to sympathize with the aspiration towards growth, towards happiness, even when it leads to rebellion against our own standards and towards what we call sin. The sympathy, realism, and imagination of art are antagonistic to conformist morality. By making us intimately acquainted with individuals, art leads to ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... was wrong while Britain passed through war fever after war fever—the Seven Years' War and the wars against Napoleon. Howel Harris' voice might have been a voice crying in the wilderness, if it had not been for the spiritual life of the existing congregations, conformist and dissenting. Modern ideas in Wales have been profoundly affected by the Quakers, and especially in districts from which, as a sect, they ...
— A Short History of Wales • Owen M. Edwards
... trial came on at Guildhall, a crowd of those who loved and honored Baxter, filled the court. At his side stood Doctor William Bates, one of the most eminent Non-conformist divines. Two Whig barristers of great note, Pollexfen and Wallop, appeared ...
— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker


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