Nonconformist - English meaning

noun

A person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.

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After fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith

adjective

Abandoning a religious or political belief or principle.

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An apostate roman catholic

noun

Someone who has given up their religion or left a political party

adjective

Departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour.

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Deviant behaviour

noun

A deviant person or thing.

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Killers, deviants, and those whose actions are beyond most human comprehension

adjective

Differing from the accepted standard

noun

A person who dissents.

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After all, the first amendment aims to protect the outsider, the dissenter, the protester: those wi…

noun

Someone who dissents

adjective

In opposition to a majority or official opinion.

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Dissentient voices were castigated as ‘hopeless bureaucrats’

noun

A person who opposes a majority or official opinion.

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It must think it really did win the last state election, even though the libs polled more votes and…

adjective

(of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange.

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He noted her eccentric appearance

noun

A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour.

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He's seen as a local eccentric

adjective

Strange or unusual, sometimes in an amusing way

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Eccentric behavior, she was an elderly eccentric who lived with 25 cats., [ u ] although his reputa…

noun

A person who rejects accepted opinions, especially those concerning religious belief.

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The religious freedom that enabled protestants and catholics to live in harmony made the netherland…

noun

Someone who forms their own opinions and beliefs, especially about religion or politics, rather than just accepting what is officially or commonly believed and taught

noun

A person believing in or practising religious heresy.

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It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, o…

noun

A person who has beliefs that are opposed to the official belief of a church and that the church considers wrong

noun

A person who is independent and self-reliant.

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A rugged individualist driven to succeed

adjective

Relating to or characterized by the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant.

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Individualist attitudes

noun

An unorthodox or independent-minded person.

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He's the maverick of the fashion scene

adjective

Unorthodox.

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A maverick detective

noun

A person who thinks and acts independently of and differently from others

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She is considered a political maverick.

noun

A person whose behaviour or attitude sets them apart from others in an uncomfortably conspicuous way.

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A motley collection of social misfits

noun

Someone who is not accepted socially by other people because his or her behavior is unusual or strange

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I was a social misfit, the kind of kid no one played with.

adjective

Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.

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The original owner of the house

noun

The earliest form of something, from which copies may be made.

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The portrait may be a copy of the original

noun

The first one made and not a copy

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Send a copy of your receipt, but keep the original., the original plans have been changed., our tea…

noun

A person who publicly demonstrates opposition to something; a demonstrator.

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The decision was hailed by protesters against the closure as a triumph

noun

Someone who protests publicly about something, especially as part of a group

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Up to 100,000 protesters are expected to march., anti-war/civil rights protesters, fuel/tax protest…

noun

A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader.

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Tory rebels

verb

Rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or leader.

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The earl of pembroke subsequently rebelled against henry iii

noun

A person who refuses to accept the government’s power and uses force to oppose it, or a person who opposes authority and thinks or behaves differently

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The government tried to set up talks with the rebels., though he dressed unusually, he never meant …

noun

A person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation.

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The lancashire desolation and remoteness was a refuge for recusants - awkward people who were stubb…

adjective

Of or denoting a recusant.

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His ravishing portrait of the young english recusant nun elizabeth throckmorton (c. 1729; washingto…

noun

A person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

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An agent who later turns out to be a renegade

adjective

Having treacherously changed allegiance.

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A renegade bodyguard

verb

Become a renegade.

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Johnson had renegaded from the confederacy

adjective

Characterized by or favouring schism.

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Schismatic religious movements were gaining currency

noun

(especially in the christian church) a person who promotes schism; an adherent of a schismatic group.

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If the term ‘christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would…