Crossword-Solution: NONCONFORMITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nonconformity | n. | 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. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “NONCONFORMITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | 1 answer |
| Nonconformism. | 2 answers |
| misbelief | 22 answers |
| Heterodoxy | 23 answers |
| dissidence | 26 answers |
| disunion | 31 answers |
| tergiversation | 32 answers |
| apostasy | 37 answers |
| Defection | 39 answers |
| Heresy | 40 answers |
| falseness | 47 answers |
| dissent | 51 answers |
| desertion | 56 answers |
| Protest | 61 answers |
| Abandonment | 62 answers |
| alienation | 67 answers |
| dissension | 72 answers |
| difference | 72 answers |
| Conflict | 74 answers |
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Sentences with NONCONFORMITY (5)
After his being freed from his twelve years’ imprisonment and upwards, for nonconformity, wherein he had time to furnish the world with sundry good books, etc., and by his patience, to move _Dr Barlow_, the then Bishop of _Lincoln_, and other church-men, to pity his hard and unreasonable sufferings, so far as to stand very much his friends, in procuring his enlargement, or there perhaps he had died, by the noisomeness and ill usage of the place.
Though never again seriously troubled for his nonconformity, his preaching journeys were not always without risk.
Courtland purchased his slaves by a promise to assist the head man of their tribe against his enemies belonging to another tribe--a promise which he only too amply fulfilled, the result being an indiscriminate slaughter of savages who, though avowed cannibals, might eventually have embraced the truths of Nonconformity.
This was the only open instance of nonconformity which the vigilant eye of Laud could detect in all the dioceses of his twenty-one suffragans, on the very eve of a revolution in which primate, and Church, and monarch, and monarchy were to perish together.
What he wanted was that the Roman Catholics should be exempted from all laws imposing penalties and disabilities on account of nonconformity, but that the persecution of the Covenanters should go on without mitigation.
Quotes with NONCONFORMITY (3)
In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.
But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluation of power and discipline as inherently evil? Can we who claim to be disciples - who are called and predestined to be conformed to the likeness of the Son (Rom. 8:29) - be opposed to discipline and formation as such? Can we who are called to be subject to the Lord of life really agree with the liberal Enlightenment notion of the autonomous self? Are we not …
They call it "young music"; I see, however, that the record industry makes millions by the carload for shrewd older people! They invoke the name of spontaneity, nonconformity and originality; actually, canny "clothing industrialists" manipulate the field, undisturbed sovereigns! They call themselves revolutionaries, but the overscrupulous attentions devoted to their hair and their dress risk creating merely effeminates.