dissenter
/dɪˈsɛntə
/noun
1A person who dissents.You see, it wasn't until I came out as a dissenter against certain policies of the left-wing political establishment that I learned what it is like to be on the ‘wrong side’ of an issue....
- After all, the First Amendment aims to protect the outsider, the dissenter, the protester: those without institutional protections.
- This was Kant's judicious way of amending Rousseau's notorious maxim, that, in a state founded on the social contract, the dissenter must be forced to be free.
Synonyms
dissident, dissentient, objector, protester, disputant, rejectionist;
rebel, revolutionary, renegade, maverick, independent;
apostate, heretic
informal bad boy
1.1 (Dissenter) British historical A member of a non-established Church; a Nonconformist.Here the religious divisions that plagued English society, between churchmen, Dissenters, and papists, were presented in a peculiarly acute form....
- What to do with the growing number of dissenters, notably Quakers and Jews?
- Baptists and other dissenters could not take the simple way out by just not drinking tea.
Synonyms
Nonconformist, Protestant, freethinker, recusant;
Puritan;
Baptist, Methodist, Quaker, Calvinist, Lutheran;
North American Mennonite
historical Anabaptist
