Definition of dissent

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Dissent (v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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Unanimous :: Unanimous (a.) Being of one mind; agreeing in opinion, design, or determination; consentient; not discordant or dissentient; harmonious; as, the assembly was unanimous; the members of the council were unanimous..
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
Dissent :: Dissent (n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement..
Dissent :: Dissent (v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.
Meeting :: Meeting (n.) An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters..
Dissenter :: Dissenter (n.) One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement..
Dissident :: Dissident (n.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse..
Dissentive :: Dissentive (a.) Disagreeing; inconsistent.
Discosent :: Discosent (v. i.) To differ; to disagree; to dissent.
Dissentient :: Dissentient (n.) One who dissents.
Dissensious :: Dissensious (a.) Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious.
Protestant :: Protestant (v.) One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church..
Waldenses :: Waldenses (n. pl.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles..
Dissented :: Dissented (imp. & p. p.) of Dissen.
Whig :: Whig (n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in Englis
Dissentiate :: Dissentiate (v. t.) To throw into a state of dissent.
Meetinghouse :: Meetinghouse (n.) A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters..
Protestation :: Protestation (n.) The act of making a protest; a public avowal; a solemn declaration, especially of dissent..
Declinator :: Declinator (n.) A dissentient.
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