Dissent
[dɪ'sent] or [dɪ'sɛnt]
Definition
(noun.) a difference of opinion.
(noun.) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority; 'he expressed his dissent in a contrary opinion'.
(verb.) withhold assent; 'Several Republicans dissented'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.
(v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.
(v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.
(n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.
(n.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.
(n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Withhold assent, refuse to agree.
n. Disagreement, difference of opinion.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ASSENT_and_CONSENT]
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Definition
v.i. to think differently: to disagree in opinion: to differ (with from).—n. the act of dissenting: difference of opinion: a protest by a minority: a differing or separation from an established church.—ns. Dissen′sion disagreement in opinion: discord: strife; Dissent′er one who separates on conscientious grounds from the service and worship of an established church: a nonconformist; Dissent′erage condition of dissenters; Dissent′erism (rare).—adj. Dissen′tient declaring dissent: disagreeing.—n. one who disagrees: one who declares his dissent.—p.adj. Dissent′ing.—adv. Dissent′ingly.—adj. Dissen′tious (Shak.) disposed to discord contentious.
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Examples
- I am delighted, Thrasymachus, to see you not only nodding assent and dissent, but making answers which are quite excellent. Plato. The Republic.
- Her daughter could not quite agree with her, but her dissent was not heard, and therefore gave no offence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If any one dissent from this, he must give a regular proof of these two propositions, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They were intolerant of questions or dissent, not because they were sure of their faith, but because they were not. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. Plato. The Republic.
- The dissenting shoemaker wanted Miss Briggs to send his son to college and make a gentleman of him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is only clergymen like Mr. Tyke, who want to use Dissenting hymn-books and that low kind of religion, who ever found Bulstrode to their taste. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Still in the Dissenting line, eh? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My parents had early given me religious impressions, and brought me through my childhood piously in the dissenting way. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They agreed with me that it looked serious; but they both strongly dissented from the view I took of the treatment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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