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dissenter

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dis·sent·er  (d-sntr)
n.
1. One who dissents: political dissenters.
2. often Dissenter One who refuses to accept the doctrines or usages of an established or a national church, especially a Protestant who dissents from the Church of England.

Dissenter
Noun
Christianity chiefly Brit a Protestant who refuses to conform to the established church
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dissenterdissenter - a person who dissents from some established policy
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
conscientious objector, CO - one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience
recusant, nonconformist - someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
political dissident - a dissenter from political orthodoxy
NIMBY - someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard

dissenter
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Spanish dissenter [dɪˈsɛntəʳ] n (REL, POL etc) → disidente m/f
French dissenter [dɪˈsɛntəʳ] n (Rel, Pol etc) → dissident(e)
German dissenter [dɪˈsɛntəʳ] dissent nAbweichler(in) m(f)
Italian dissenter [dɪˈsɛntəʳ] n (REL, POL etc) → dissidente m/f

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I don't see why you should have been so surprised because I was a dissenter.
A peasant would run away, a fashionable dissenter would run away, the flunkey of another man's thought, for you've only to show him the end of your little finger and he'll be ready to believe in anything for the rest of his life.
But now he may be no better than a Dissenter, and want to push aside my son on pretence of doctrine.
 
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