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noun

Dissent n.

The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement. "The dissent of no small number (of peers) is frequently recorded."

(Eccl.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity. "It is the dissidence of dissent and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."

Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality. (Obs.) "The dissent of the metals."

Synonyms: Disagreement; variance; difference; nonconcurrence; nonconformity.

verb

Dissent v. i. (past & past part. dissented; pres. part. dissenting)

To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; followed by from. "The bill passed... without a dissenting voice." "Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us."

(Eccl.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

To differ; to be of a contrary nature.

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"Dissent" Quotes from Famous Books

... to descant on the merit of these speeches; but as it is no less new than honorable to find a popular candidate, at a popular election, daring to avow his dissent to certain points that have been considered as very popular objects, and maintaining himself on the manly confidence of his own opinion, so we must say that it does great credit to the people of England, as it proves to the world, that, to insure their confidence, it is ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... sublimity, or the sacred character that should be impressed on a funeral ceremony, except when they borrow a fragment here and there from the very ritual they affect to condemn. In their eagerness to dissent, they have been guilty of the weakness of dissenting, so far as forms are concerned, from some of the loftiest, most comprehensive, most consolatory and most instructive passages ...

— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper

... that, whatever may have been the constitutional scruples of Secretary Chase in respect to the legal tender clause, he yielded to it under the pressure of necessity, and expressed no dissent from it until, as chief justice, his opinion was delivered in the case of Hepburn vs. Griswold, in the Supreme ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... there came a light in Anna's face that shone into his heart and was meant so to shine, yet her dissent was prompt: "I must. I must. Oh, Capt—Captain Kincaid, I love that flag too well to let it go misnamed. It's the flag of all of us who made it, us ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

... for foreign travel and a cheap local railway service. But he was a Pole, and the fine old hatred which should have been bestowed upon the Radicals fell to the lot of the Russians, and the contempt hurled by his British prototype upon Dissent was cast upon Commerce as represented in Poland ...

— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman

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