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What does Conformist mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (religion) In English history, a person whose religious practices conformed with the requirements of the Act of Uniformity and who was therefore in concert with the Established Church, the Church of England, as opposed to those of Nonconformists, whose practices were not acceptable to the Church of England.
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It is a chance to express their natural desire for a little creative devilment, usually at the expense of their conformist elders.
It's been brought to my attention that The Conformist is now taught as much at the college and university level as Citizen Kane.
The Western system functions by allowing small islands of dissent in an overwhelming sea of conformist propaganda.
He went on to star in the freewheeling A Man and a Woman, then shot the gorgeous My Night With Maud for Eric Rohmer and The Conformist for Bernardo Bertolucci.
Far from daring, he was a conformist, reinforcing the majority culture views of New Yorker readers.
They can step outside of the conformist straitjackets of their own culture and become hip, become cool.

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