Dissenter

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dissenter \Dis*sent"er\, n.
     1. One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares
        his disagreement.
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     2. (Eccl.) 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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              Dissenters from the establishment of their several
              countries.                            --Burke.
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              Robert Brown is said to have the first formal
              dissenter.                            --Shipley.
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     Note: "The word is commonly applied only to Protestants. The
           Roman Catholics are generally referred to as a distinct
           class." --Brande & C.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dissenter
       n : a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: {dissident},
            {protester}, {objector}, {contestant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissenter":
     Bohemian, Evangelical, Protestant, Reformationist,
     Reformed believer, Zwinglian, apostate, beatnik, demurrer, deviant,
     dissentient, dissident, dropout, flower child, freak, heretic,
     hippie, maverick, misbeliever, misfit, non-Catholic, nonconformist,
     nonjuror, objector, opinionist, opposition voice, original,
     protestant, protester, recusant, schismatic, sectarian, sectary,
     separatist, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie