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单词 nonconformist
释义 non·conformist
I. \“+\ noun
Etymology: non- (I) + conform, v. + -ist
1.
 a. : a person who does not conform to an established church or its doctrine, discipline, or polity
  < Lutheran churchmen and Swedish nonconformists cooperate — N.G.Sahlin >
 b. often capitalized
  (1) : one of the clergymen numbering about 2000 who left the Church of England in 1662 rather than submit to the Act of Uniformity
  (2) : a member of a religious body separated from the Church of England : dissenter
   < a desire to bring Nonconformists within the established church — British Book News >
2.
 a. : a person who fails or refuses to conform to some norm : one who deviates from a generally accepted or socially approved way or pattern of thought or action
  < the Bureau of Naval Personnel soon returned these nonconformists to a civilian status — A.A.Ageton >
 b. : a person who dissents on principled grounds from an established or conventional creed, rule, or practice : one who displays a courageous independence of thought in refusing to conform blindly or timidly to a prevailing dogma or orthodoxy
  < whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist — R.W.Emerson >
  < those who have done most for the world … have been the dissenters and nonconformists — R.J.McCracken >
3. : a natural object that does not function or behave according to rule or in a manner typical of its kind
 < gallium is a nonconformist among metals — L.J.Briggs >
 < type of variable star had been recognized as a nonconformist since 1946 — J.M.Chamberlain >
II. adjective
1.
 a. : nonconforming to an established church
 b. often capitalized : relating to a member of or being a religious body separated from the Church of England
  < nonconformist ministers gathered >
  < a poor, Nonconformist family — Time >
2. : nonconforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of thought or behavior or to an established creed, rule, or practice
 < whose rabidly nonconformist deportment has made them legendary figures — New Yorker >
 < also nonconformist, also biased by abnormality — Edmund Wilson >
 < the old, stubborn, nonconformist spirit of the earliest settlers — R.M.Coates >
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