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/dɪsˈɛntɪŋ/ /dɪsˈɛnɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Dissent v. i. (past & past part. dissented; pres. part. dissenting)

To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; followed by from. "The bill passed... without a dissenting voice." "Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us."

(Eccl.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

To differ; to be of a contrary nature.

adjective

dissenting adj. Disagreeing, especially with a majority.

Synonyms: dissentient, dissident.

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Etymology of 'Dissenting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissenting" Quotes from Famous Books

... the eighteenth century a leading Dissenting minister, the Rev. Joseph Fawcett, said in answer to a question: "Do I like Sterne? Yes, to be sure I should deserve to be hanged if I didn't!" That was the attitude of thoughtful and scrupulous ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... little on the character of the Dissenting population immediately surrounding Roe Head; for the "Tory and clergyman's daughter," "taking interest in politics ever since she was five years old," and holding frequent discussions with such of the girls as were Dissenters ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell

... Joseph Story was ten years old in 1789 when the Constitution was adopted; his earliest impressions, therefore, were of the Confederation, and I know no better description of the interval just subsequent to the peace of 1783, than is contained in a few lines in his dissenting opinion in the Charles ...

— The Theory of Social Revolutions • Brooks Adams

... they have.' The meaning intended is probably—'as I do not know whether they have or not,' and therefore the subjunctive 'have' is preferable. 'If ignorance is bliss,' which I (ironically) admit. Had Gray been speaking seriously, he would have said, 'if ignorance be bliss,' he himself dissenting from the proposition. ...

— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

... There was not a dissenting voice. Charley was altogether the most popular member of Company I, and every man knew how he had clung to the ...

— Old Man Savarin and Other Stories • Edward William Thomson

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