Definition of Dissenters

1. Noun. (plural of dissenter) ¹

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Definition of Dissenters

1. dissenter [n] - See also: dissenter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissenters

disseminules
dissension
dissensions
dissensious
dissensus
dissensuses
dissent
dissental
dissentaneous
dissentany
dissentation
dissentations
dissented
dissenter
dissenterism
dissenters (current term)
dissentient
dissentients
dissenting
dissenting(a)
dissenting opinion
dissentingly
dissention
dissentions
dissentious
dissentiously
dissentive
dissents
dissepiment
dissepiments

Literary usage of Dissenters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Since the yesa 1836, when, during Lord Melbourne's administration, an Act was passed granting all dissenters from the state church the right to go through ..."

2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1835)
"V. Sto/e qf Ecclesiastical Questions, and the Claims of the dissenters in England—Petitions for Separation of Church and State—Motion in. the Commons to ..."

3. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1891)
"The marriages of members of the Church of England were dissenters' not affected, ... The marriages of dissenters were allowed to be solemnized in their own ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"A few years later he carried on at Stoke Newington,near London, the chief school of the dissenters. His object •was to give an education not inferior to ..."

5. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1901)
"The Society of dissenters founded at New York in HISTORIANS have long recognized more or less fully the importance of the controversies which, ..."

6. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1906)
"In 1834, another conflict arose between the church and dissenters, when the latter ... The position of dissenters was not the same in both universities. ..."

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