nonconformity
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non·con·form·ity (-kən fôrm′ə tē)
noun
- failure or refusal to act in conformity with generally accepted beliefs and practices
- refusal to accept the doctrines or follow the practices of the Anglican Church
- lack of agreement or harmony
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nonconformity
n.
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Adjective modifier
- Protestant: Protestant nonconformity has also been well-represented over the years.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
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