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Definition of nonconformist : One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.

Synonyms:

eccentric, schismatic, out-there, oddball, heterodox, nonconforming, unorthodox, protestant, separatist, theoretical, liberal, central, radical, deterministic, conceptual, demonstrator, unconformist, iconoclast, iconoclastic, freethinker, heathen, heretic, sectary, recusant, popular, dissenter, unconventional, dissenting, separationist, orthodox, loner, weirdo, religion, infidel, utopian, metaphysical, maverick, chapelgoer, abstract, extremism, bad apple, dissentient, beatnik, nonorthodox, Bohemian, eccentricity, sectarian, dissident, hippie, malcontent, protester

disobeying, wayward, anarchistic, disloyal, ungovernable, mischievous, rebellious, factious, treacherous, intractable, treasonous, disobedient, mutinous, disregardful, contrary, recalcitrant, out of control, subversive, traitorous, undisciplined, seditious, insubordinate, unmanageable, defiant, misbehaving, unruly

Usage examples:

• He came of Nonconformist ancestry of most marked individuality. - "Edward Caldwell Moore Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant", Edward Moore.
• This is not edifying talk- as our Nonconformist parson says, when he can get no more to drink- therefore let me only tell what became of Lorna. - "Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor", R. D. Blackmore.
• The fact that he was a leading Nonconformist was, I fancy, supposed to commend him in some obscure way to the Ulster party. - "The Red Hand of Ulster", George A. Birmingham.