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[ dih-sen-ter ] / dɪˈsɛn tər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR dissenter ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person who dissents, as from an established church, political party, or majority opinion. (sometimes initial capital letter) an English Protestant who dissents from the Church of England. Origin of dissenterFirst recorded in 1630–40; dissent + -er1 Words nearby dissenterdisseminated tuberculosis, dissemination, disseminule, dissension, dissent, dissenter, dissentient, dissenting opinion, dissentious, dissepiment, dissert Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for dissenterI think you should give the dissenter the respect to respond to the points that he makes. Antonin Scalia Believes in the Devil & 8 More Juicy Bits from the ‘New York’ Magazine Profile|Caroline Linton|October 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST By expressing my doubts, I am clearly a dissenter in this persistent force for progress. Gays Who Don't Want Gay Marriage|Natalie Neusch|February 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST McCain thinks of himself as a maverick, an unorthodox thinker, a dissenter. McCain's Revenge|News Shrink|November 5, 2008|DAILY BEAST Greatly to Whitefield's distress of mind, Kinchin had resolved to declare himself a Dissenter. The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume I (of 2)|Luke Tyerman
Another thing that gave me trouble was the fact of being a Dissenter. Christopher Crayon's Recollections|J. Ewing Ritchie And do you know he is an Old Believer, or rather a dissenter? Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoevsky I wish you would not call him a minister, it sounds like a dissenter. The Three Brides|Charlotte M. Yonge No Dissenter can complain, if the ground of his dissent be removed from the Church. Church Reform|Richard Carlile
British Dictionary definitions for dissenter
nounChristianity, mainly British a Nonconformist or a person who refuses to conform to the established church Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to dissenterskeptic, protester, separatist, heretic, rebel, nonconformist, objector |