nonconformityn.

Brit.

/ˌnɒnkənˈfɔːmᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌnɑnkənˈfɔrmədi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, conformity n.

Etymology: < non- prefix + conformity n.

1. Frequently with capital initial. Refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or usages of the Church of England, or of any established church, etc.; the principles or practice of nonconformists. Now usually: Protestant dissent; the body of nonconformists or nonconformist opinion.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun]

dissent1585

dissenting1593

nonconformitya1631

inconformity1633

unconformity1635

nonconforming1651

dissentaneousness1652

nonconformitancya1670

dissension1708

Dissenterism1809

nonconformism1844

dissentism1859

Dissenterage1867

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 176 He confesses that he hath received good instruction, but he refuses to conform himself unto it; there's Non-conformity.

1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 96 In Queen Elizabeths time many good men were cut off from the Church... And all this for one word of their owne compounding, Non-conformity.

1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 13 Orthodox Divines, no way given to that Schisme of Non-Conformity, into which Oliver soon after fell.

1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 24 He [sc. Bacon] advised that Non-conformity should not meerly be conniv'd at, but even Tolerat by a Law.

a1732 E. Calamy Life (1829) I. i. 65 My father, in the year 1662,..was for his nonconformity ejected from a good living.

1771 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 5 The Family continu'd all of the Church of England till about the End of Charles 2^ds Reign, when some of the Ministers that had been outed for Nonconformity, holding Conventicles in Northamptonshire, Benjamin & Josiah adher'd to them, and so continu'd all their Lives.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 101 The crimes are factitious, as smuggling, poaching, nonconformity, heresy and treason.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 82/1 Nonconformity, which formerly had no hold upon Little Russia,..has suddenly begun to make progress there in the shape of the ‘Stunda’, a mixture of Protestant and rationalisitc teaching.

1898 Times 29 Oct. 13/6 The Bishop said that..neither Rome on the one hand nor Nonconformity on the other trusted their ministers as the Church confided in the priesthood of England.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 441/1 He established for English nonconformity a tradition of culture and scholarship.

1979 T. Benn Arguments for Socialism i. 25 These ideas lie at the root of religious dissent, and gave birth to the idea of the priesthood of all believers which is central to non-conformity.

1988 Lit. & Theol. 2 160 Davie's strictures may be more applicable to the Nonconformity of the first half of the twentieth century than to that of the later nineteenth.

2. Failure or refusal to conform to a rule, practice, custom, or requirement. Frequently with to, with.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [noun]

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brucheOE

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rupture1439

non-observance1453

misobservance1496

violating1523

swerving1545

infringinga1575

inobservation1579

recess1601

inobservancea1626

infringement1628

misobservancy1637

egression1651

nonconformity1653

unobservance1654

brack1658

infraction1673

violence1743

non-conformance1786

inobservancy1824

1653 W. Allen Some Baptismal Abuses 79 Some..have taken hold of certain delusive Pleas, whereby to justifie their non-conformity to this rule of the Gospel, and Doctrine of Christ.

1682 E. Pearse Conformist's 2nd Plea for Nonconformists 13 Their Nonconformity to the Act of Uniformity.

a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1722) ii. 77 Their Non-conformity with the vulgar Salutation, and their saying Thou and Thee.

1823 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor I. vii. 261 Sin is a disagreement or nonconformity of the will of any creature with the will of God.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lviii. 233 In case of non-conformity to this indispensable form.

1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics vi. §37. 95 The..sufferings caused by nonconformity to the laws of life.

1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. II. 68/1 John Williams.., lord-keeper and bishop of Lincoln, who respected him for his learning, indulged Cotton's nonconformity with the sanction of James I.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 16/1 Roger Williams and John Wheelright had been forced from the colony because of their nonconformity to prevailing religious beliefs.

1987 W. Raeper George MacDonald xviii. 168 His bohemian non-conformity, it seems, extracted nothing but taunts and cruelty from the other boys.

3. Lack of correspondence, agreement, adaptability, or congruity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun]

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difference1340

variancec1374

distancea1382

unlikenessa1387

variationc1405

discrepation?a1425

distinction1435

severaltyc1449

unlikelinessc1450

dissemblance1463

unlikelihood1483

alteritya1500

indifferencec1503

discrepancea1522

dissimilitude1532

differency1542

variety1552

discernment1570

disparitya1575

discrepancy1579

otherness1587

discernance1592

imparity1608

disanalogy1610

disresemblance1622

dislikeness1623

diff1624

inconformity1625

irresemblance1628

variousness1628

odds1642

disparation1654

aliety1656

disparility1656

disparateness1659

severality1664

nonconformity1672

unconformableness1712

dissimilarity1715

differentness1727

differ1787

allogeneitya1834

otherwiseness1890

otherliness1937

diversion-

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > variety of form or non-uniformity

deformitya1544

difformity1580

inequability1581

disformity1600

irregularness1609

inconstancy1613

inconformity1625

inequality1626

irregularity1646

nonconformity1672

anomaly1686

disuniformity1710

ununiformness1716

ununiformity1749

heteromorphism1839

non-uniformity1852

raggedness1882

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 269 Never was there such Incongruity and Nonconformity in their furniture.

1763 J. Mayhew (title) Observations on the charter and conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel..; designed to shew their nonconformity to each other.

1846 T. De Quincey Notes on Gilfillan's Gallery Lit. Portraits in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 27/2 Nonconformity of tastes might easily arise between two parties, without much blame to either.

1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 240 The girl..was apt to meet his seriousness with something savouring of coquetry... But the nonconformity was more evanescent than the early dew.

1886 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 4 Dec. 188/1 The nonconformity of the complete specification with the provisional specification.

1929 Q. Rev. Biol. 4 409/2 Non-conformity of results from three experiments is not a surprising fact.

1991 Business July (BNC) 64 One other, called ‘non-conformity of replies’, measures the accuracy of all the others. Its extremely low rating suggests that the answers given were open, honest and highly reliable.

4. Geology. A set of strata that are not conformable (conformable adj. 4); spec. such a contact between younger sedimentary rocks and underlying older metamorphic or igneous rocks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata > relation of strata

nonconformity1850

conformability1864

1850 J. P. Smith Relation between Holy Script. & Geol. Sci. (ed. 4) 247 These processes have occurred several times..; producing among the strata many varieties of direction, inclination, contortion, cleavage, conformity, and nonconformity in reference to each other.

1890 Amer. Naturalist 24 212 The type consists in a succession of nonconformities appearing one after another at various geological horizons.

1915 L. V. Pirsson Text-bk. Geol. I. xi. 292 The lower formation is not always composed of stratified rocks with distinct stratification planes, but may be of igneous or metamorphic rocks... An unconformity of this class is here termed a non-conformity.

1927 Science 5 Aug. 136/1 All the contacts excepting the Columbia lava-Mascall and perhaps the Clarno-John Day are very striking nonconformities.

1957 C. O. Dunbar & J. Rodgers Princ. Stratigr. vi. 119/1 We propose to restrict the term nonconformity to the first type [of unconformity], in which stratified rocks are unconformable with non-stratified, either igneous or metamorphic.

1971 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 178 359 Rocks on the island range from late Cretaceous into the Tertiary, with a claimed disconformity or unconformity somewhere within the sequence. The penguins are believed to have come from above the nonconformity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nonconformity
释义	nonconformityn. Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈfɔːmᵻti/, U.S. /ˌnɑnkənˈfɔrmədi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, conformity n. Etymology: < non- prefix + conformity n. 1. Frequently with capital initial. Refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or usages of the Church of England, or of any established church, etc.; the principles or practice of nonconformists. Now usually: Protestant dissent; the body of nonconformists or nonconformist opinion. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] dissent1585 dissenting1593 nonconformitya1631 inconformity1633 unconformity1635 nonconforming1651 dissentaneousness1652 nonconformitancya1670 dissension1708 Dissenterism1809 nonconformism1844 dissentism1859 Dissenterage1867 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 176 He confesses that he hath received good instruction, but he refuses to conform himself unto it; there's Non-conformity. 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 96 In Queen Elizabeths time many good men were cut off from the Church... And all this for one word of their owne compounding, Non-conformity. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 13 Orthodox Divines, no way given to that Schisme of Non-Conformity, into which Oliver soon after fell. 1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 24 He [sc. Bacon] advised that Non-conformity should not meerly be conniv'd at, but even Tolerat by a Law. a1732 E. Calamy Life (1829) I. i. 65 My father, in the year 1662,..was for his nonconformity ejected from a good living. 1771 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 5 The Family continu'd all of the Church of England till about the End of Charles 2^ds Reign, when some of the Ministers that had been outed for Nonconformity, holding Conventicles in Northamptonshire, Benjamin & Josiah adher'd to them, and so continu'd all their Lives. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 101 The crimes are factitious, as smuggling, poaching, nonconformity, heresy and treason. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 82/1 Nonconformity, which formerly had no hold upon Little Russia,..has suddenly begun to make progress there in the shape of the ‘Stunda’, a mixture of Protestant and rationalisitc teaching. 1898 Times 29 Oct. 13/6 The Bishop said that..neither Rome on the one hand nor Nonconformity on the other trusted their ministers as the Church confided in the priesthood of England. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 441/1 He established for English nonconformity a tradition of culture and scholarship. 1979 T. Benn Arguments for Socialism i. 25 These ideas lie at the root of religious dissent, and gave birth to the idea of the priesthood of all believers which is central to non-conformity. 1988 Lit. & Theol. 2 160 Davie's strictures may be more applicable to the Nonconformity of the first half of the twentieth century than to that of the later nineteenth. 2. Failure or refusal to conform to a rule, practice, custom, or requirement. Frequently with to, with. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [noun] borrow-breacha900 brucheOE breacha1382 violation1433 rupture1439 non-observance1453 misobservance1496 violating1523 swerving1545 infringinga1575 inobservation1579 recess1601 inobservancea1626 infringement1628 misobservancy1637 egression1651 nonconformity1653 unobservance1654 brack1658 infraction1673 violence1743 non-conformance1786 inobservancy1824 1653 W. Allen Some Baptismal Abuses 79 Some..have taken hold of certain delusive Pleas, whereby to justifie their non-conformity to this rule of the Gospel, and Doctrine of Christ. 1682 E. Pearse Conformist's 2nd Plea for Nonconformists 13 Their Nonconformity to the Act of Uniformity. a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1722) ii. 77 Their Non-conformity with the vulgar Salutation, and their saying Thou and Thee. 1823 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor I. vii. 261 Sin is a disagreement or nonconformity of the will of any creature with the will of God. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lviii. 233 In case of non-conformity to this indispensable form. 1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics vi. §37. 95 The..sufferings caused by nonconformity to the laws of life. 1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. II. 68/1 John Williams.., lord-keeper and bishop of Lincoln, who respected him for his learning, indulged Cotton's nonconformity with the sanction of James I. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 16/1 Roger Williams and John Wheelright had been forced from the colony because of their nonconformity to prevailing religious beliefs. 1987 W. Raeper George MacDonald xviii. 168 His bohemian non-conformity, it seems, extracted nothing but taunts and cruelty from the other boys. 3. Lack of correspondence, agreement, adaptability, or congruity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] diversitya1340 difference1340 variancec1374 distancea1382 unlikenessa1387 variationc1405 discrepation?a1425 distinction1435 severaltyc1449 unlikelinessc1450 dissemblance1463 unlikelihood1483 alteritya1500 indifferencec1503 discrepancea1522 dissimilitude1532 differency1542 variety1552 discernment1570 disparitya1575 discrepancy1579 otherness1587 discernance1592 imparity1608 disanalogy1610 disresemblance1622 dislikeness1623 diff1624 inconformity1625 irresemblance1628 variousness1628 odds1642 disparation1654 aliety1656 disparility1656 disparateness1659 severality1664 nonconformity1672 unconformableness1712 dissimilarity1715 differentness1727 differ1787 allogeneitya1834 otherwiseness1890 otherliness1937 diversion- the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > variety of form or non-uniformity deformitya1544 difformity1580 inequability1581 disformity1600 irregularness1609 inconstancy1613 inconformity1625 inequality1626 irregularity1646 nonconformity1672 anomaly1686 disuniformity1710 ununiformness1716 ununiformity1749 heteromorphism1839 non-uniformity1852 raggedness1882 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 269 Never was there such Incongruity and Nonconformity in their furniture. 1763 J. Mayhew (title) Observations on the charter and conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel..; designed to shew their nonconformity to each other. 1846 T. De Quincey Notes on Gilfillan's Gallery Lit. Portraits in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 27/2 Nonconformity of tastes might easily arise between two parties, without much blame to either. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 240 The girl..was apt to meet his seriousness with something savouring of coquetry... But the nonconformity was more evanescent than the early dew. 1886 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 4 Dec. 188/1 The nonconformity of the complete specification with the provisional specification. 1929 Q. Rev. Biol. 4 409/2 Non-conformity of results from three experiments is not a surprising fact. 1991 Business July (BNC) 64 One other, called ‘non-conformity of replies’, measures the accuracy of all the others. Its extremely low rating suggests that the answers given were open, honest and highly reliable. 4. Geology. A set of strata that are not conformable (conformable adj. 4); spec. such a contact between younger sedimentary rocks and underlying older metamorphic or igneous rocks. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata > relation of strata nonconformity1850 conformability1864 1850 J. P. Smith Relation between Holy Script. & Geol. Sci. (ed. 4) 247 These processes have occurred several times..; producing among the strata many varieties of direction, inclination, contortion, cleavage, conformity, and nonconformity in reference to each other. 1890 Amer. Naturalist 24 212 The type consists in a succession of nonconformities appearing one after another at various geological horizons. 1915 L. V. Pirsson Text-bk. Geol. I. xi. 292 The lower formation is not always composed of stratified rocks with distinct stratification planes, but may be of igneous or metamorphic rocks... An unconformity of this class is here termed a non-conformity. 1927 Science 5 Aug. 136/1 All the contacts excepting the Columbia lava-Mascall and perhaps the Clarno-John Day are very striking nonconformities. 1957 C. O. Dunbar & J. Rodgers Princ. Stratigr. vi. 119/1 We propose to restrict the term nonconformity to the first type [of unconformity], in which stratified rocks are unconformable with non-stratified, either igneous or metamorphic. 1971 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 178 359 Rocks on the island range from late Cretaceous into the Tertiary, with a claimed disconformity or unconformity somewhere within the sequence. The penguins are believed to have come from above the nonconformity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1631
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