Nonconformity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NONCONFORMITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an unconformity that separates profoundly different rock types, such as sedimentary rocks from metamorphic rocks
• the principles or practice of Nonconformists, especially Protestant dissent.
• lack of similarity in form or type.
• Nonconformists as a body, especially Protestants dissenting from the Anglican Church.
• failure or refusal to conform to a prevailing rule or practice
• Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.
• lack of harmony or correspondence
• a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
• unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
• failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• failure or refusal to conform to an established church b often capitalize; the movement or principles of English Protestant dissent c often capitalize; the body of English Nonconformists

Words related to NONCONFORMITY

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How to use NONCONFORMITY in a sentence

• Here I must permit myself some necessary remarks on the subject of Nonconformity, its influence on individualities and its direct relationship to Romance.
• It was the non-establishment, the comparative free-field, of Nonconformity that gave him his chance.
• Besides these bodies, the Baptists and Quakers stand out amid the sects comprised in Nonconformity.
• In all of these three grand divisions of climate, however, exceptional localities exist where there is a marked nonconformity to the prevailing characteristics.
• No one doubts that the Nonconformist minister cares more for Nonconformity than he does for his teapot.
• The young tremble even more than the old at the penalties of nonconformity.
• Hooker began to preach at Chelmsford in 1626, and was silenced for non-conformity in 1629.
• Amongst a preponderating lower middle-class element Nonconformity, or rather what is better known as Protestantism, is very popular.
• Conceived by political economy and born of religious nonconformity, it has ever been the most sober and respectable province of Australia.
• The majority were strongly tinctured with Puritanism, but nonconformity took on many shades of opinion.
• The young convention-breaker eventually finds that he pays too heavily for his nonconformity.
• The failure of individual nonconformity to customs, as above illustrated, suggests that an analogous series of changes may have to be gone through in this case also.
• That persecution which the world now visits upon them from mistaking their nonconformity for ignorance or disrespect, may diminish when it is seen to result from principle.
• Yet in such matters a little nonconformity may be encouraged.
• If the spirit is that of nonconformity to the world, so should the dress or uniform be.
• The relation of the English Church to Nonconformity may accordingly be considered separately.
• There was no feeling against the Establishment, nor was Nonconformity ever less in favour.
• He afterwards published a moderate defence of Nonconformity, in three tracts, in answer to some tracts of Benjamin, afterwards Bishop, Hoadly.
• On this false view of unity, might the primitive Christians and Protestant martyrs be censured for non-conformity.
• Her father was not a native of Ilchester, nor an inhabitant, before his imprisonment there for non-conformity in the reign of King Charles II.
• Robinson had left England as early as 1608, on account of the persecutions for non-conformity, and had retired to Holland.
• Princhester had a feeling that it deserved more for coming over to the church from nonconformity as it was doing.
• Among the churches non-conformity began more decidedly to assume the form of secession.
• I had no idea, then, that I had come under suspicion of a far more serious offence than that of a sectarian nonconformity.
• It gave a great stimulus to Nonconformity, which now became for the first time an important factor in the national life.
• The history of the Renaissance in Southern Europe testifies to this, as it illustrates in other countries the development of the spirit of Nonconformity and revolt.

Similar words containing CONFORM without suffix ity and without prefix non

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