This habit, known as occasional conformity, was viewed with great jealousy by the Tories.
Notwithstanding this admonition, and the addresses of both houses, in which they promised to avoid all divisions, a motion was made in the house of commons for renewing the bill against occasional conformity, and carried by a great majority.
He affirmed that the church's danger arose from the act of security in Scotland, the absence of the successor to the crown, and the practice of occasional conformity.
Is it not a mistake, in short, to form parties and cabals in order to bring in a bill to repeal the act of occasional conformity?
Occasional conformity was "either a sinful act in itself, or else his dissenting before was sinful.
It is impossible now to ascertain what induced Defoe to break with the Dissenters, among whom he had been brought up, but break with them he did in his pamphlet against the practice of Occasional Conformity.
During the next reign, however, when a bill was introduced to prohibit the practice of occasional conformity, Defoe strenuously wrote against it as a breach of the Toleration Act and a measure of persecution.
We have already seen how Defoe had taken the lead in attacking the practice of occasional conformity.
The Sincerity of the Dissenters vindicated from the Scandal of occasional Conformity; with some Considerations on a late Book, entituled 'Moderation a Virtue.
The Sincerity of the Dissenters vindicated from the Scandal of Occasional Conformity; with some Considerations on a late book, entituled, Moderation a Virtue.
He soon after published another Inquiry, in order to show, that the dissenters are no ways concerned in occasional conformity.
During the time the Bill against Occasional Conformity was on foot, persecution was every day rung in our ears, and now at last the Sacramental Test itself has the same name.
It is needless here to enter into the details of the excited and discreditable agitation by which the custom of occasional conformity was at length, for a time, defeated.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occasional conformity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
