[f. CONFORM v. + -ER1.] One who conforms; a conformist.

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1609.  W. Sclater, Threef. Preserv. (1610), E iij a. If the present store of Conformers serue not, [etc.].

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1619.  Sanderson, 12 Serm. (1632), 42. Thus haue I … laboured to free, not onely the Conformer from all vnjust Censures; but even the Non-conformer also.

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1625.  Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar, vii. 187. The publick authorised Doctrine of the Church of England, and of Conformers unto the said Doctrine of that Church.

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1859.  Mill, Liberty, ii. 60. Conformers to commonplace.

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1874.  Morley, Compromise (1886), 87. Conformity … and its degrading consequences to the character of a conformer.

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