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non-conformity
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Nonconformist
"
Nonconformist
" or "
Non-conformist
" was a term used in
England
and
Wales
after the
Act of Uniformity 1662
to refer to a
Protestant Christian
who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the
established
Church of England
.
English Dissenters
(such as
Puritans
) who violated the
Act of Uniformity 1559
may retrospectively be considered Nonconformists, typically by practising or advocating radical, sometimes separatist, dissent with respect to the established state church. By the late 19th-century the term included
Reformed Christians
(
Presbyterians
and
Congregationalists
),
Baptists
, and
Methodists
, among other groups. Historically, Nonconformists were restricted from many spheres of public life.
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