Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "non-conforming".
The baiting of Jews, the hunting of Albigenses and Waldenses, the stoning of Quakers and ducking of Methodists, the murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, that pugnacity of which we all share the vestiges, and that inborn hatred of the alien and of eccentric and non-conforming men as aliens, than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators.
Such minor matters as the wiping out of non-conforming cultures - the extraordinarily rapid growth of which was now explained - must wait.
It's simpler to draw up a new hypothesis to cover all the facts than to strain an old one that was never intended to cover the non-conforming data.
Such minor matters as the wiping out of non-conforming cultures — the extraordinarily rapid growth of which was now explained — must wait.