The Only Use of
nonconformist
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The family continued all of the Church of England till about the end of Charles the Second's reign, when some of the ministers that had been outed for nonconformity holding conventicles in Northamptonshire, Benjamin and Josiah adhered to them, and so continued all their lives: the rest of the family remained with the Episcopal Church.†
Definition:
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(nonconformist) someone who refuses to conform to socially approved patterns of behavior or thought