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Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh n-fawr-mist
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈfɔr mɪst

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Définition of conformist

Origin :
  • "one who conforms" in any way, originally usually with reference to religion; 1630s, from conform + -ist. Cf. conformism.
  • noun person in agreement
Example sentences :
  • He was a conformist to the conventionalities of the surroundings in which he was placed.
  • Extract from : « Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 » by Ward Hill Lamon
  • Thus a mistake has changed me into a conformist, though I never changed my creed.
  • Extract from : « Irish Wit and Humor » by Anonymous
  • Many refused, including a number of the conformist ministers.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of Scotland » by Andrew Lang
  • Cozens has a conscience—a conformist conscience—and is a first-class season-ticket holder.
  • Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919 » by Various
  • The people of Upton, great and small, conformist or nonconformist, were proud of their rector.
  • Extract from : « Brought Home » by Hesba Stretton
  • Due to the conformist spirit of the dominant crowd, native-born Americans are losing their intellectual leadership.
  • Extract from : « The Behavior of Crowds » by Everett Dean Martin
  • The preacher told the magistrates that he was a Conformist, and therefore not subject to the penalties of the Act in question.
  • Extract from : « The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume I (of 2) » by Luke Tyerman
  • It is an antithesis against which conformist dialecticians have always turned their sharpest weapons.
  • Extract from : « Euripedes and His Age » by Gilbert Murray
  • In fact, the disorders and attacks on conformist ministers were of a violence much overlooked by our historians.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of Scotland » by Andrew Lang
  • Mr. Bright, one of these ministers, is said by Hubbard to have been a Conformist.
  • Extract from : « The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 » by Egerton Ryerson

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