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the old stubborn nonconformist spirit of the early settlers
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How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. (source)nonconformists = people who refuse to conform to socially approved patterns of behavior or thought
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Mica Area High School—MAHS—was not exactly a hotbed of nonconformity.† (source)
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According to Wall's History of Gravesend, N.H., the Rev. John Wheelwright had been a good minister of the English church until he began to "question the authority of certain dogmas"; he became a Puritan, and was thereafter "silenced by the ecclesiastical powers, for nonconformity."† (source)
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That doesn't sound too good, sounds like an endorsement of nonconformity.† (source)
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Lawrence's people keep refusing to behave, to submit to convention, to act in a way that conforms to expectations, even expectations of other nonconformists.† (source)
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He was the undisciplined, recalcitrant, nonconformist, politically incorrect free spirit I had always wanted to be, had I been brave enough, and I took vicarious joy in his unbridled verve.† (source)
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Labov says that these leaders of linguistic change have had a history of nonconformity and that their language itself was a display of nonconformity.† (source)
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"We have found out ...that we cannot trust some people who are nonconformists," declared Ray Kroc, one of the founders of McDonald's, angered by some of his franchisees.† (source)nonconformists = people who refuse to conform to socially approved patterns of behavior or thought
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However it was, he mechanically rose, and sleepily wondering what could be in the wind, betook himself to the designated place, a narrow platform, one of six, outside of the high bulwarks and screened by the great dead-eyes and multiple columned lanyards of the shrouds and back-stays; and, in a great war-ship of that time, of dimensions commensurate with the hull's magnitude; a tarry balcony, in short, overhanging the sea, and so secluded that one mariner of the Indomitable, a non-conformist old tar of a serious turn, made it even in daytime his private oratory.† (source)
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Women are quicker than men to adopt "prestige forms" of language, but also quicker to adopt symbols of nonconformism, new or "stigmatized forms" that can acquire a kind of "covert prestige."† (source)
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Major Major's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist.† (source)
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She was far from being seriously concerned about his nonconformity.† (source)
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Less the babes, the frail elderly, those few who must needs labor even on the Lord's Day, and the handful of Quakers and nonconformists who bide up on the high farms, the number who gather each week in our church is a firm two hundred and one score worshipers.† (source)
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He was a thick, ruddy man, the sort of Englishman one sees in the Midlands, the sort that is either very Non-Conformist or very alcoholic, and George William was not Non-Conformist.† (source)
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I felt like it was keeping a part of my brain alive that would otherwise lie completely dormant—even in prison you had to work at being a nonconformist.† (source)
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