dissidentadj.n.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 257 These thinges are not altogether dissident from the trewthe.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Oiiii Sca[r]selye so farre from vs..as owre lyfe and manners be dissidente from theirs.

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. 283 A forme of prayer dissident from the common.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. vii. 393 The dissident Armed-Forces have met.

1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia I. 212 In most respects so dissident from the Wahhabee sectarians.

1890 J. R. Lowell Latest Ess. (1892) 97 Men..dissident..in other respects, were agreed in resenting these impediments.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. iv. 165 Whereby come Dissident ejected Priests; unconquerable Martyrs according to some,..chicaning Traitors according to others.

1955 Times 10 May 10/1 Dispatches reaching Paris to-day report that the second of the two dissident sects, the Hoa Hao, are continuing their attacks on Viet Nam Army positions.

1967 Ann. Reg. 1966 211 On 8 February another dissident Soviet writer, Valery Tarsis, was allowed to leave for Britain.

1977 Time 8 Aug. 7/2 They violate the human rights of their own dissident citizens.

1984 Crouch & Porter Understanding Soviet Politics through Lit. p. ix The distinctions that are often made between ‘regime’ and ‘dissident’ writers..can neglect the fact that there may be significant overlapping concerns.

1789 H. Walpole Let. to H. S. Conway 15 July Some may be seized by the dissidents, and whole provinces be torn from the crown.

1826 W. Scott Rev. Kemble's Life (1849) 153 The scruples of such dissidents from public opinion are real.

1885 G. Allen Charles Darwin vii. 120 The magic of his name silenced the derisive whispers of the dissidents.

1790 (title) An Address to the Dissidents of England on their late Defeat.

1809 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 164/1 He did defend and support it; and did persecute all dissidents from its doctrine.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. xi. 294 Leonists, Speronists,..and dissidents of all other descriptions, were incapable of holding places of honour.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §7. 538 Against dissidents from their own system, the Presbyterians were as bitter as Laud himself.

1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 11/2 Nothing could be granted to the dissidents; not even the toleration of their worship.

1767 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 5 May (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2810 I have a great opinion of the cogency of the controversial arguments of the Russian troops, in favour of the Dissidents.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. ii. 91 In the Polish diets the dissidents, as they were called, met their opponents with vigour and success.

1940 E. Wilson To Finland Station i. vii. 48 He took the position that the voters..had the right to confer power on whom they chose; that for a dissident like himself to refuse to submit to their choice would constitute an act of insurrection.

1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. iv. 246 The very term ‘dissidents’ had originated through Irgun's refusal to accept the authority of the Jewish Agency.

1970 Ann. Reg. 1969 197 Ivan Yakhimovich, once regarded as a model collective farm chairman but dismissed for criticizing the 1968 trial of four dissidents, was arrested in March.

1981 M. McAuley Soviet Union since 1917 vii. 234 Dissidents range from left-wing communists to fervent Russian nationalists, from minority nationalists..to those who want socialism with a human face.