disagreern.
/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːə/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈɡriər/ΚΠ
1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xii. 60 The soule..cannot beare any mixture, or be support of diuerse thinges... They which of al the disagreers, least disagree, will not so nighly be linked.
1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master 214 The arguments arising manifoldly were distribution and definition: now definition ariseth as it shall fall out, either from agreers, or disagreers.
1658 W. Parker Revindication 227 Now in a discrete axiom the parts are dissentanies or disagreers.
2. A person who disagrees (in various senses); esp. a person who holds or expresses a different opinion from another.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person
recusant1581
disagreer1605
unconformitant1605
nonconformist1618
non-conformer1622
nonconformitan1622
nonconformitantc1630
inconformist1633
dissenter1639
unconformist1640
fanatic1644
non-conformant1654
withdrawer1677
non-consenter1680
non-con1681
meeting-house man1711
shit-sack1769
dissident1790
meetinger1802
chapel-goer1842
speckle-belly1874
1605 E. Askew Brotherly Reconcilem. 57 A peace-maker among disagreers.
a1660 H. Hammond Wks. (1684) II. i. 605 (R.) To awe disagreers in all matters of faith.
1875 Quiver 10 277/1 Some people..seem to be slaves to the spirit of contradiction... They are..not only disagreers, but often very disagreeable.
1895 Science 25 Oct. 554/2 ‘Failure to agree’ is stigmatized, but it might be politic to first ask who are the disagreers.
1915 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Weekly Sentinel 13 Jan. 4/3 The Ohio senator..is certainly leaving in his wake a most brilliant record as a disagreer.
1967 Skiing Dec. 150/2 Ted is a disagreer... Say something he disagrees with, and he flatly and emphatically states his own opinion.
2007 H. Jonasson Determining Project Requirements vii. 159 The Disagreer doesn't like the project, doesn't like the objectives, and would be very happy if the project was cancelled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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