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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conformist
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lagrange's outspoken views have left him well outside the conformist political mainstream.
▪ Our children's creativity is being beaten down by the conformist educational system.
▪ Your problem is that you are too conformist in your thinking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among the non conformist Churches would be the Congregationalists and Baptist Churches.
▪ The era ended in reaction: evangelical, political, romantic, conformist.
▪ The land of the free is often a very conformist society.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
conformist

conformist \conformist\ adj.

  1. marked by conformity or convention; not corresponding to current customs or rules or styles; as, underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist. Opposite of nonconformist.

  2. same as conforming.

    Note: [Narrower terms: orthodox (vs. unorthodox)]

    Syn: conforming.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
conformist

"one who conforms" in any way, originally usually with reference to religion; 1630s, from conform + -ist. Compare conformism.

Wiktionary
conformist

a. conforming to established customs, etc. n. someone who tries to conform to the mainstream

WordNet
conformist

  1. adj. marked by conformity or convention; not corresponding to current customs or rules or styles; "underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist" [ant: nonconformist]

  2. adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) [syn: conforming]

  3. n. someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) [ant: nonconformist]

Wikipedia
Conformist

In English history, Conformists were those whose religious practices conformed with the requirements of the Act of Uniformity and so were 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.

In 1662 ministers had to sign the Act of Uniformity to use the book of common prayer. Virtually the only church in the UK that is still truly "Conformist" in this sense is the Church of England (Continuing).

Usage examples of "conformist".

An intellectual, a maverick, and a warrior in a service that was increasingly anti-intellectual, conformist, and bureaucratized, he thought of himself as the token exception in what was turning into The Corporate Navy.

The balance can be classed as conformists, not devout but reasonably contented.

This is the operating principle that guides the research of Niles Caulder, the Chief of the DOOM PATROL, as he deliberately provokes 'accidents' that transform self-satisfied conformists into companionless, existentially tormented super-heroes.

There are anarchists who, beneath their dirty denim shirts, are outrageous conformists, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists.

When he was at leisure from writing and teaching, he often came up to LONDON, and there went among the congregations of the non conformists, and used his talent to the great good-liking of the hearers.

Looking at her similarly dressed companions, he has to conclude that although college uniform may be consigned to history, young people remain conformists at heart - so long as they are left to choose what they conform to.

He was a man, and if they wanted a man instead of a sheep, they learned right away that Paul Harrell didn’t play by their conformist, ball-less rules.