ppl. a. [UN-1 10.] Failing or refusing to conform; spec. = NONCONFORMING.
1641. Vind. Smect., xiii. 131. There is one practice of our Bishops he is something more laborious to justifie: That is, their casting out unconforming brethren.
1656. Sanderson, Serm. (1689), 13. Unconforming Ministers have no cause to complain.
1680. Dial. Pope & Phanatick, 7. We post within the Establish’d Church as many Unconforming Ministers as we can.
1753. Chesterf., in World, No. 29. 256. To be plagued … by the unconforming obstinacy, the low vulgar excesses,… of my son.
1821. Wordsw., Eccl. Sonn., Clerical Integrity, 2. Nor shall the eternal roll of praise reject Those Unconforming; whom one rigorous day Drives from their Cures.
1825. Monthly Rev., CVI. 513. Calvinistic laymen are seldom tolerant, their women less unconforming.
