Definition of Dissentients

1. Noun. (plural of dissentient) ¹

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Definition of Dissentients

1. dissentient [n] - See also: dissentient

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissentients

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

Literary usage of Dissentients

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

1. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"Any State in the Empire might set up either form of faith as its State religion, permission being given to dissentients to dispose of their estates and ..."

2. The History of Brazil: From the Period of the Arrival of the Braganza Family by John Armitage (1836)
"... and declaration of independence—All dissentients subjected to banishment—Election of Don Pedro as Emperor—State and prospects of the new Empire, ..."

3. Life of James Green: Doctor of Divinity, Rector and Dean of Maritzburg by Augustus Theodore Wirgman (1909)
"But this was not the idea of the Natal dissentients. Their idea of the Bishop sent out to them from Canterbury resembled the Russian Grand Duke's idea of an ..."

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