nonconformist vs pedant

nonconformist

noun
  • Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church. 

  • Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices. 

  • A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter. 

  • A noctuid moth (Lithophane lamda). 

adj
  • Not conforming to established customs, etc. 

pedant

noun
  • A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 

  • A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. 

adj
  • Pedantic. 

How often have the words nonconformist and pedant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )