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Definition of dissenter in English: dissenternoun dɪˈsɛntədəˈsɛn(t)ər 1A person who dissents. Example sentencesExamples - In such instances, dissenters have a chance to go beyond a statement of what they, in theory, would do on an issue.
- This would have encouraged dissenters to feel they are part of a national family, rather than outcasts only fit for punishment.
- Nothing, of course, justifies physical attacks on dissenters, but one does wonder whether some provocation was not involved.
- I haven't read the case closely, but my sympathies lie towards the dissenters.
- 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.
- Powell dissents on the same grounds but he's a dissenter who should be sent packing.
- In public debate the loud dissenters are steeped in the liberal creed.
- The four dissenters responded with several options they considered workable.
- 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.
- We thank you all, everyone, even the dissenters, for being with us tonight.
- Without the change, dissenters could argue that, given the Senate numbers, compromise was essential.
- After all, the First Amendment aims to protect the outsider, the dissenter, the protester: those without institutional protections.
- With just a few dissenters, those at the meeting voted to send a delegation to meet with Trevor Mallard to discuss the future of the school.
- Mr Hague took a sterner approach to dissent by moving party policy to the right and banishing dissenters from the front bench.
- Successful propagandists must also discourage dissenters who might disrupt the party line.
- Harlan was the lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases, and though he dissented in Lochner, he also either wrote or joined some of the most significant liberty of contract cases.
- All dissenters have been systematically and ruthlessly eliminated.
- Some of the dissenters, provoked by the police use of tear gas against them, responded by torching Gabriel's house.
- The rationality of the dissenters, their credentials, was enhanced, not diminished by this kind of reaction.
- These views were common on the left, despite some dissenters, and to a considerable extent they still are.
Synonyms dissident, dissentient, objector, protester, disputant, rejectionist rebel, revolutionary, renegade, maverick, independent apostate, heretic informal bad boy - 1.1British historical A member of a non-established Church; a Nonconformist.
Example sentencesExamples - Baptists and other dissenters could not take the simple way out by just not drinking tea.
- What to do with the growing number of dissenters, notably Quakers and Jews?
- They also committed the Church to a future Anglican toleration of Protestant dissenters.
- Here the religious divisions that plagued English society, between churchmen, Dissenters, and papists, were presented in a peculiarly acute form.
- A national church was to be maintained, but with freedom of worship for Protestant dissenters.
Synonyms Nonconformist, Protestant, freethinker, recusant Puritan Baptist, Methodist, Quaker, Calvinist, Lutheran North American Mennonite historical Anabaptist
Rhymes assenter, cementer, centre (US center), concentre (US concenter), enter, eventer, fermenter (US fermentor), fomenter, frequenter, inventor, lamenter, magenta, placenta, polenta, precentor, presenter, preventer, repenter, tenter, tormentor Definition of dissenter in US English: dissenternoundəˈsɛn(t)ərdəˈsen(t)ər 1A person who dissents. Example sentencesExamples - In public debate the loud dissenters are steeped in the liberal creed.
- Some of the dissenters, provoked by the police use of tear gas against them, responded by torching Gabriel's house.
- In such instances, dissenters have a chance to go beyond a statement of what they, in theory, would do on an issue.
- Harlan was the lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases, and though he dissented in Lochner, he also either wrote or joined some of the most significant liberty of contract cases.
- Without the change, dissenters could argue that, given the Senate numbers, compromise was essential.
- The four dissenters responded with several options they considered workable.
- The rationality of the dissenters, their credentials, was enhanced, not diminished by this kind of reaction.
- After all, the First Amendment aims to protect the outsider, the dissenter, the protester: those without institutional protections.
- I haven't read the case closely, but my sympathies lie towards the dissenters.
- Nothing, of course, justifies physical attacks on dissenters, but one does wonder whether some provocation was not involved.
- We thank you all, everyone, even the dissenters, for being with us tonight.
- With just a few dissenters, those at the meeting voted to send a delegation to meet with Trevor Mallard to discuss the future of the school.
- These views were common on the left, despite some dissenters, and to a considerable extent they still are.
- All dissenters have been systematically and ruthlessly eliminated.
- Powell dissents on the same grounds but he's a dissenter who should be sent packing.
- 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.
- Mr Hague took a sterner approach to dissent by moving party policy to the right and banishing dissenters from the front bench.
- Successful propagandists must also discourage dissenters who might disrupt the party line.
- This would have encouraged dissenters to feel they are part of a national family, rather than outcasts only fit for punishment.
- 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 - 1.1British historical A member of a nonestablished Church; a Nonconformist.
Example sentencesExamples - A national church was to be maintained, but with freedom of worship for Protestant dissenters.
- Here the religious divisions that plagued English society, between churchmen, Dissenters, and papists, were presented in a peculiarly acute form.
- Baptists and other dissenters could not take the simple way out by just not drinking tea.
- What to do with the growing number of dissenters, notably Quakers and Jews?
- They also committed the Church to a future Anglican toleration of Protestant dissenters.
Synonyms nonconformist, protestant, freethinker, recusant
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