Definition of Dissidents

1. Noun. (plural of dissident) ¹

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Definition of Dissidents

1. dissident [n] - See also: dissident

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissidents

dissevering
disseverment
disseverments
dissevers
dissheathe
dissheathed
dissheathes
disship
disshipped
disshipping
disships
dissidence
dissidences
dissident
dissidently
dissidents (current term)
dissight
dissights
dissilience
dissilition
dissimilar
dissimilarities
dissimilarity
dissimilarly
dissimilarness
dissimilars
dissimilate
dissimilated
dissimilates
dissimilating

Literary usage of Dissidents

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

1. Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy: A Half-Century of U.S by Glenn E. Schweitzer (2004)
"dissidents, REFUSENIKS, AND THE EXILE OF ANDREY SAKHAROV During the 1970s and 1980s, human rights became an important dimension of the US-Soviet ..."

2. Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Reformation in by Walerjan Skorobohaty Krasinski, Valerian Krasinski (1840)
"The dissidents are restored to their rights and privileges, but in a very preposterous manner. ... Restrictions imposed on the dissidents (1775) ..."

3. Studies in European Politics by Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1866)
"The question of the dissidents is one of the gravest with which ... among the dissidents, and this is the reason why they are treated with so much harshness ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"1662 he issued his first Declaration of Indulgence, in which he undertook, with the concurrence of parliament, to exercise on behalf of religious dissidents ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... see below), was distributed as follows : Orthodox Greek including the United Greek Church, 87123,- 604; dissidents, including the Old Believers, ..."

6. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1885)
"... so, by this bill, the temporal jurisdiction alone was to have cognisance of dissidents.f Two offences were created to be remedied: to the one the right ..."

7. Sketch of the religious history of the Slavonic nations by Walerjan Skorobohaty Krasiński, Valerian Krasinski (1851)
"... their country—Restoration of the anti-Romanists or dissidents to their ancient rights by foreign influence—Observations on this subject—General remarks ..."

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