non-conformist

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Her most recent exhibition outside of Russia, “Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s,” is running at the Haunch of Venison gallery in London through June 26.

From New York Times • May 28, 2010

And so he prepared a series of articles for "The Non-Conformist," and there was enough non-conformity in them so he was paid a small sum for his work.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert

This was paid by the congregation in addition to the taxes which were required of the Non-Conformist churches towards the upkeep of the established English church.

From Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia by Northington, Etta Belle Walker

A Particular Narrative of the Imprisonment of two Non-Conformist Ministers; and Prosecution & Tryal of one of them, for Preaching one Sermon in the city of New-York.

From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by Faris, John T. (John Thomson)

A Non-Conformist clergyman in his earlier life, he seems to have turned in later years to the practice of medicine.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace