释义 |
dissenterdis‧sent‧er /dɪˈsentə $ -ər/ noun [countable] - A later residence in Northamptonshire was licensed in 1673 for dissenter meetings, in spite of his earlier bad reputation there.
- But in practice, if most countries want to go ahead with something, they may well ignore a lone dissenter.
- It even published the minority views of dissenters.
- Soviet dissenters were persecuted more actively and severely in 1980 than had been the case in 1976.
- They did not honor the dissenters.
- Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.
1a person or organization that disagrees with an official decision or accepted opinion: Political dissenters were imprisoned.2 (also Dissenter) someone in the past who did not accept the beliefs of the established Protestant church in Western Europe SYN non-conformist |