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Conformist

adjective

Marked by convention and conformity to customs or rules or styles.

Adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion). Synonym: conforming.

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"Conformist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Congressmen, strike-breakers, gun-men, kept patriots and newspapers. In England the case is even worse. It is almost impossible to find a wealthy industrial over there who is not also an eminent non-conformist layman, and even among financiers there are praying brothers. On the Continent, the day is saved by the fact that the plutocracy tends to become more and more Jewish. Here the intellectual cynicism of the Jew almost counterbalances his social unpleasantness. If he is destined ...

— The Antichrist • F. W. Nietzsche

... strong for him. He had fitted so easily into the pleasant scheme of things, and he was doing nothing in the world but helping to prolong the delusion, just as men set painted glass in a window to shut out the raincloud and the wind. He was a conformist, he felt, in everything—in religion, intellect, life—but a sceptic underneath. Was he not perhaps missing the whole object and aim of life and experience, in a fenced fortress of quiet? The thought stung him suddenly with a kind of remorse. He was doing no part of the world's work, not sharing ...

— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson

Words linked to "Conformist" : conformism, nonconformist, religious belief, orthodox, faith, conservative, conservativist, conform, religion