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Nonconformist vs Recreant - What's the difference?

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Nonconformist is a related term of recreant.


As a noun nonconformist

is (christianity) a member of a protestant church which does not observe the doctrines of the established church, especially of the church of england.

As a verb recreant is

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nonconformist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
  • Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
  • Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not conforming to established customs etc.
  • See also

    * Nonconformist * nonconformity

    recreant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:For, from the day that he thus did it leave, / Amongst all Knights he blotted was with blame, / And counted but a recreant Knight with endles shame.
  • *1671 , (John Milton), Paradise Regained , III:
  • *:Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and false.
  • *1793 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), :
  • *:And let the recreant traitors seek / My tourney court […].
  • Derived terms

    * recreance * recreancy * recreantly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted.
  • Synonyms

    * apostate * coward * deserter * poltroon * renegade * turncoat

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