dissentn.
/dɪˈsɛnt/ 1. Difference of opinion or sentiment; disagreement; †dissension, quarrel (obsolete).
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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun]
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1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. iv. sig. P Artegall..Did stay a while their greedy bickerment, Till he had questioned the cause of their dissent . View more context for this quotation
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 202 I finde no dissent betweene any parties touching this precept.
1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 156 As if some deep hate and dissent..betwixt high winds and thee Were still alive.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 217 Not that all freedom of dissent I blame..A disputable point is no man's ground.
a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 183 Cavaignac..accepting kindly my innumerable dissents from him.
2. Disagreement with a proposal or resolution; the opposite of consent.
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [noun]
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1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 230 Nor can he interpose his Dissent, nor do they much care for his Consent.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 21 Nov. (1974) VIII. 542 The opposite Lords..desired they might enter their dissents.
1705 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 35 He and three Friends more entered not only their dissent but protest against it.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 293 The onus of proof would be on the complaining party..to shew reasons for his dissent.
1878 J. Morley Vauvenargues in Crit. Misc. 3 Apart from formal and specific dissents like these.
3.
a. spec. Difference of opinion in regard to religious doctrine or worship.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun]
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Dissenterism1809
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Dissenterage1867
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. v. 82 Where dissent in religion is, there can hardly be consent in loue. Diuersitie of religion sundered the Iewe and Gentile.
1676 A. Marvell Gen. Councils in Wks. (1875) IV. 151 He should not wonder at the dissents in the Christian religion, which were very small.
a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 222 One Bishop excluding another from communion for dissent in opinion about disputable points.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 9 What could be the reason of this general dissent from the notion of the Resurrection?
1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. ii. 23 Even religious dissent were less dangerous and more respectable than dissent in dress.
b. esp. The practical expression of disagreement with the form of religious worship which prevails or is authoritatively established in any country; nonconformity. Particularly applied to non-conformity with the established churches of England and Scotland, within the pale of the Reformed Churches.
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1812 Burke's Speech Act of Uniformity 1772 in Wks. V. Dissent, not satisfied with toleration, is not conscience, but ambition.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 22/1 The origin of Protestant dissent from the church of England is usually traced back to the year 1548.
1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1854) 557/1 In this way the Church of Rome unites in herself all the strength of establishment and all the strength of dissent.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 577 In Scotland dissent assumed a very different..character than in England.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. ix. 238 The open expression of difference..to that which is authoritatively established, constitutes Dissent.
c. Put for: The dissenting or nonconformist section of the community.
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1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in Wks. (1842) I. 549 Protestant dissent was one of the quarters from which danger was apprehended.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. ix On this occasion the whole strength of dissent was put forth..with the whole strength of the establishment.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun]
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inaccordancy1817
incorrespondency1817
cacophony1831
divergence1837
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. ix. 571 The dissent or disparitie in the present manners of our state.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xlii. 81/2 [We] may attribute this vnto a..hidden dissent betwixt this Soile and these Geese, as the like is betweene Wolues and the Squilla rootes.
a1626 F. Bacon Physiol. Remains in Baconiana (1679) 110 Where the Menstrua are the same, and yet the Incorporation followeth not,..the Dissent is in the Metals.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §255 (margin) Experiments..touching the Consent and Dissent between Visibles and Audibles.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 330 The Mace in few dayes..becom's tawny and unlike her former braverie: yet in that dissent, best pleases.
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dissentv.
/dɪˈsɛnt/ 1. intransitive. To withhold assent or consent from a proposal, etc.; not to assent; to disagree with or object to an action. Const. from, †to.
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > dissent or disagree [verb (intransitive)] > refuse assent
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > dissent from or disagree with [verb (transitive)] > refuse assent
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non-concur1703
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (intransitive)] > refuse consent or agreement
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non-consent1645
the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > dissent from or disagree with [verb (transitive)]
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c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. i. 36 Fra þis he dyssentyd hale.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 44 Dame July must nedes haf hir wille, If I dissente, and if I make affray, I have the wers.
1565 T. Randolph in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 199 Whear unto some among the Lords dyscented.
1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 146 Some lords entred their reasons for dissenting to the order.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 105 The earls of Derby, as lords of Man, had maintained..authority..by assenting or dissenting to laws.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 293 Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent, the Court will itself exercise his authority.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. ix. 207 Those who openly dissented from the acts which the King had carried through the Parliament.
2. † c. elliptical. To differ as to, or from. Obsolete.
a. To think differently, disagree, differ from, in (an opinion), from, †with (a person).
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > dissent or disagree [verb (intransitive)]
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > dissent from or disagree with [verb (transitive)] > a person
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a1536 W. Tyndale Doctr. Treat. (1848) 367 Where the first say ‘bread and wine cannot be the very body and blood of Christ’; there they vary and dissent from them.
1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 50 Wherein the Popish preests dissente from the manifest woorde of God.
1565 Sir W. Cecil in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 301 The Quenes Majesty will marry with none..that shall discent in Relligion.
1646 J. Gaule Select Cases Conscience 56 Hereupon it hath been somewhat dissented.
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxiii. 32 Some are so eristical and teasty, that they will not..bear with any that dissent.
1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 1. ⁋14 I dissent with the Examiner upon certain phrases.
a1763 W. Shenstone Relig. in Ess. When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments.
1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) xviii. 289 The points upon which they dissent from their neighbours.
a1871 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) ii. 37 If the public dissent from our views, we say that they ought to concur with us.
b. spec. To differ in religious opinion; to differ from the doctrine or worship of a particular church, esp. from that of the established, national, or orthodox church.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [verb (intransitive)]
dissenta1555
a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 397 Our adversary saith we dissent from the church..With what church sayest thou that we dissent?
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. i. 3 Euery man ought to embrace the religion which is true, and to shun, as hurtfull, whatsoeuer dissenteth from it, but that most, which doth farthest dissent.
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xvii. §26. 330 Those that came to Christianity..were not received into the Church without Baptisme; and those that dissented from the Church were depriv'd of the Churches Communion.
1653 tr. J. Stegmann Brevis Disq. in Phenix (1708) II. 341 The whole Discipline of Manners is neglected..Only to dissent is counted a capital Crime.
1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in Wks. VI. 323 If mere dissent from the church of Rome be a merit, he that dissents the most perfectly is the most meritorious. In many points we hold strongly with that church. He that dissents through~out with that church will dissent with the church of England.
1808 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 98 The Methodists have hitherto been accused of dissenting from the Church of England.
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a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. iii. §2. 17 Though they doe dissent, what a God they ought to haue, yet they fully doe consent, that a God they ought to haue.
a1662 P. Heylyn Aerius Redivivus (1670) 29 The greater wonder..that..they should so visibly dissent him in the point of the Sabbath.
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society > society and the community > dissent > be in dissension or at variance [verb (intransitive)]
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > contend, dispute, argue [verb (intransitive)]
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1538 Bale God's Promises i, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) I. 289 They shall hereafter dissent; His seed with her seed shall never have agreement.
1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 37 Nowe they did discent by warre.
1610 Bp. J. Hall Sixt Decade vii. 80 in Epist. (1611) III. Euen the best Apostles dissented; neither knowledge, nor holynesse can redresse all differences.
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild ii. vi, in Misc. III. 141 I am ashamed to see Men..so foolishly and weakly dissenting among themselves.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > be different [verb (intransitive)]
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1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. A.v A certayne pleasaunt fable..not much dyssentynge from thys purpose.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 8 The translation of the Seuentie dissenteth from the Originall in many places.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 192 The people differ not in colour nor condition, from the other..but their Funerals dissent from the rest.
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iv. 33 A God, whose figure doth dissent From men.
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