Dissenting
[dɪ'sɛntɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissent
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Examples
- 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.
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