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Conformist   /kənfˈɔrmɪst/   Listen
Conformist

noun
1.
Someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters).





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"Conformist" Quotes from Famous Books



... was no hint, and I think no intention, of abolishing and proscribing the worship of the Church of England in New England; for Mr. White himself, the projector and animating spirit of the whole enterprise, was a conformist clergyman.[24] It was professedly a religio-commercial undertaking, and combined for its support and advancement the motives of religion and commerce, together with the enlargement of ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson
... is compelled to pay, not for the ransom, but for the deprivation of his children, and to furnish such a sum as the Chancellor thinks proper to appoint for their education to the age of eighteen years. The case is the same, if the husband should be the conformist; though how the law is to operate in this case I do not see: for the act expressly says, that the child shall be taken from such Popish parent; and whilst such husband and wife cohabit, it will be impossible to ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke


Words linked to "Conformist" :   faith, religious belief, conservative, conformism, conform, religion, orthodox, nonconformist, conforming, conservativist


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