Dissenter
[dɪ'sentə]
Definition
(noun.) a person who dissents from some established policy.
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Definition
(n.) One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.
(n.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Typist: Wilhelmina
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Nonconformist, sectary.
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Examples
- The fat Dissenter who had given out the hymn was left sitting in the ditch. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But now he may be no better than a Dissenter, and want to push aside my son on pretence of doctrine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The circumstance of finding himself invited to tea with a Dissenter would unhinge him for a week. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She has got all her ideas of Dissenters from the Quakers, has not she? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Was Malone settling the Dissenters? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The methodists, without half the learning of the dissenters, are much more in vogue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I assure you, sir, we were only having a little chat together over a glass of wine after a friendly dinner--settling the Dissenters! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In his first Parliament he distinguished himself by his opposition to the admission of religious dissenters to the universities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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