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Dissidence :: Dissidence (a.) Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.

Meetinghouse :: Meetinghouse (n.) A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters..

Bethel :: Bethel (n.) A chapel for dissenters.

Dissenter :: Dissenter (n.) One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement..

Separatist :: Separatist (n.) One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary..

Disassenter :: Disassenter (n.) One who disassents; a dissenter.

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..

Sectary :: Sectary (n.) A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.

Dissent :: Dissent (v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government..

Dispute :: Dispute (v. t.) To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments..

Dissentive :: Dissentive (a.) Disagreeing; inconsistent.

Nonconformist :: Nonconformist (n.) One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter..

Dissentany :: Dissentany (a.) Dissentaneous; inconsistent.

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 The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in Englis

Dissident :: Dissident (a.) No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.

Dissent :: Dissent (v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.

Conventicle :: Conventicle (n.) An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics..

Dissented :: Dissented (imp. & p. p.) of Dissen.

But :: But (adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind..

Dissenter :: Dissenter (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..

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