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dis·sent·er

(dĭ-sĕn′tər)

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.

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dissenter

(dɪˈsɛntə)

(Ecclesiastical Terms) (also capital) Christianity chiefly Brit a Nonconformist or a person who refuses to conform to the established church

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

dis•sent•er

(dɪˈsɛn tər)

n.

1. a person who dissents, as from an established church or political party.

2. (sometimes cap.) a person who dissents from the Church of England.

[1630–40]

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Noun

dissenter - a person who dissents from some established policy

dissident, objector, protester, contestant

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

noun objector, dissident, nonconformist, protestant, disputant They do not tolerate dissenters in their ranks.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

dissenter

noun

A person who dissents from the doctrine of an established church:

dissident, heretic, nonconformist, schismatic, sectarian, sectary, separationist, separatist.

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Abweichler

dissidente

dissenter

[dɪˈsentəʳ] N (Pol, Rel) → disidente mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dissenter

[dɪˈsɛntə^r] n → contestataire mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dissenter

n → Abweichler(in) m(f); (Eccl also) → Dissenter m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dissenter

[dɪˈsɛntəʳ] n (Rel, Pol) → dissidente m/f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"I don't see why you should have been so surprised because I was a dissenter."

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And he stole, too, then, without knowing it himself, for 'How can it be stealing, if one picks it up?' And do you know he is an Old Believer, or rather a dissenter? There have been Wanderers[*] in his family, and he was for two years in his village under the spiritual guidance of a certain elder.

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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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--besides several compositions in prose, purporting to be dialogues between the Emperor of China and an oyster, or the Archbishop of Canterbury and a dissenter on the subject of church-rates, but all having the same moral, namely, that the reader must make haste to Jarley's, and that children and servants were admitted at half-price.

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'Indeed I have little doubt,' said Flora, running on with astonishing speed, and pointing her conversation with nothing but commas, and very few of them, 'that you are married to some Chinese lady, being in China so long and being in business and naturally desirous to settle and extend your connection nothing was more likely than that you should propose to a Chinese lady and nothing was more natural I am sure than that the Chinese lady should accept you and think herself very well off too, I only hope she's not a Pagodian dissenter.'

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Viewing their religious liberties here, as held only by sufferance, yet bound to them by all the ties of conviction, and by all their sufferings for them, could they forbear to look upon every dissenter among themselves with a jealous eye?

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'Then I have no doubt,' said Mrs Nickleby, 'that it was with him my great-grandfather went to school; for I know the master of his school was a dissenter, and that would, in a great measure, account for the Cock-lane Ghost's behaving in such an improper manner to the clergyman when he grew up.

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There was a party in the Church which would very willingly have seen the Nonconformists or Dissenters persecuted.

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"Aye, aye; but he's none so fond o' your dissenters, for all that."

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Thus Dissenters were ineligible; they could not run if asked, they could not serve if elected.

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During the remaining ten years of his life his reputation and authority among the Dissenters almost equalled his earnest devotion and kindness, and won for him from his opponents the good-naturedly jocose title of 'the Baptist bishop.' He died in 1688.

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Dissenters resort thither in great numbers, as other people do, simply because it is a land of resort; and great settlements of them are founded, because ground can be purchased, and towns and villages reared, where there were none of the human creation before.

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