dissentientadj.n.
/dɪˈsɛnʃ(ɪ)ənt/ A. adj.
a. Differing or disagreeing in opinion.
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [adjective]
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discordant1474
disagreeing1550
dissenting1550
dissident?c1550
disassentinga1572
differinga1586
disagreed1596
discorded1597
incompliable1625
unconsented1631
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dissentient1651
dissentive1661
unassenting1836
divaricate1855
1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 185* If..ther will be still dissentient suffrages.
1865 G. Grote Plato I. vi. 265 Several distinct and dissentient points of view opened.
a1871 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) iv. 118 A young person is perplexed by the dissentient judgments he hears from different individuals.
b. esp. Dissenting from, or refusing assent to, the opinion or sentiment of the majority. Dissentient Liberals, (in Politics) a term applied (by opponents) to those members of the Liberal party who in 1886 dissented from the action of the majority in adopting the principle of ‘Home Rule’ for Ireland as part of the political programme; called by themselves Liberal Unionists.
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1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II I. 57 All the vassals..swore fealty and homage to him, without any one dissentient voice being heard.
1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. iv. i. i. 374/2 They usually only set down their names as dissentient to a vote.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 507 The authority of the two dissentient lords prevented several other noblemen from subscribing the address.
1888 W. E. Gladstone Let. Mr. Ivory 26Oct. Not only Scotchmen in general, but such Scotchmen as were at one time dissentient.
B. n.
One who differs or disagrees in opinion; one who differs from the opinion of the majority.
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [noun] > one who
declinator1606
discrepant1620
dissentient1621
disassentera1650
dissenter1651
dissident1789
no man1930
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes iii. 415 To vilifie and traduce the Parts and Persons of all Dissentients.
1790 W. Jones Charge to Grand Jury, Calcutta 10 June in Wks. (1799) III. 42 When it has been found by a majority of your whole number, it is their counsel, which the dissentient must not disclose.
1823 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 372 They would have left, there as here, no dissentients from their doctrine.
1868 A. Helps Realmah II. xvi. 246 The voices of dissentients were drowned by the predominant shout.
1887 Daily News 18 July 5/1 Mr. Gladstone..presses the Dissentients with the awkwardness of their position.
Derivatives
diˈssentientism n.
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1892 Daily News 25 Jan. 5/5 Lancashire will have nothing to do with dissentient Liberals..only Sir Henry James is left to keep up the pretence of Dissentientism in the whole county.
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