Nonconformists

Cultural  

1. Protestants in England in the seventeenth century and afterward who refused to belong to the Church of England, which was the established church (see also established church) for Protestants in the country. Many Protestant churches in the United States, such as the Congregationalists, are rooted in the teachings of the English Nonconformists. The Nonconformists are also called Dissenters.

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Example Sentences

Nonconformists in a fundamentalist society where the radio plays pop songs encouraging women not to go to college, Toorpakai’s parents raised her and her sister, Ayesha Gulalai, a politician, as the equals of their brothers.

From Los Angeles Times

Over the next twenty years, over 2,500 places of public worship for Nonconformists sprang up.

From Salon

Nonconformists of all kinds must be careful in the increasingly straitlaced England of the 1820s.

From Washington Post

Nonconformists will find blue-chip Napa Valley wines and a deep pocket of whites from Alsace, Germany and Austria, where Mr. Glocker was born.

From New York Times

Many of the clergy fled, and the places of some were occupied by the ejected Nonconformists.

From Project Gutenberg