† non-conn.1
colloquial. Obsolete.
= nonconformist n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person
recusant1581
disagreer1605
unconformitant1605
nonconformist1618
non-conformer1622
nonconformitan1622
nonconformitantc1630
inconformist1633
dissenter1639
unconformist1640
fanatic1644
non-conformant1654
withdrawer1677
non-consenter1680
non-con1681
meeting-house man1711
shit-sack1769
dissident1790
meetinger1802
chapel-goer1842
speckle-belly1874
1681 Heraclitus Ridens 20 Sept. 2/2 I'le say that for our Non-cons, they are in as fair a way to undo themselves, as they have been this forty years.
1689 M. Prior Epist. to F. Shephard in Poems Several Occasions (1905) 13 So at pure barn of Loud Non-con, Where with my grannam I have gone.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 17 Unbeneficed Non-Con's (that live by Alms, and no Pater-noster no Peny, says the Green-Aprons).
1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg ii. 17 A Tall Two-handed Squint-ey'd Non-Con waving a Banner in the Air with all his Force.
a1825 S. Parr in W. Field Mem. (1828) I. 137 You non-cons have done well to exchange the word meeting-house for chapel.
1862 Westm. Rev. Jan. 89 A chapel [in Keighley] for some section of the Methodists..who were popularly known as ‘Noncons’.
Compounds
General attributive.
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1682 Heraclitus Ridens 13 June 1/1 Methinks you have much of the obscurity of a Non-Con Parson in this talk.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §81. 645 One Rosewell, a Non-Con Teacher, convict of High Treason.
1819 S. Parr Let. to Mr. Berry 19 Dec. in Wks. (1828) VIII. 481 The undisciplined curiosity of non-con sciolists.
1885 Dict. National Biogr. II. 196/1 In the July of 1817 he formed the Non-con Club at his own house, Talfours, Southwood Smith, W. J. Fox, and Walter Wilson being among the members.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
† non-conn.2
Obsolete.
= non-content n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun] > discontented person
malcontent1575
discontent1598
discontenteea1734
non-con1790
non-content1830
Frondeur1847
sore-head1848
1790 R. Heber Let. 10 Mar. in Heber Lett. (1950) ii. 56 We rejoiced together at the defeat of the Non. Cons.
1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Non-content The word is sometimes abridged into Non-con, and applied to any one who dissents or expresses dissatisfaction. J. Foster.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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