Definition of Dissented

1. Verb. (past of dissent) ¹

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Definition of Dissented

1. dissent [v] - See also: dissent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissented

disseminator
disseminators
disseminule
disseminules
dissension
dissensions
dissensious
dissensus
dissensuses
dissent
dissental
dissentaneous
dissentany
dissentation
dissentations
dissented
dissenter
dissenterism
dissenters
dissentient
dissentients
dissenting
dissenting(a)
dissenting opinion
dissentingly
dissention
dissentions
dissentious
dissentiously
dissentive

Literary usage of Dissented

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

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... who had dissented from the church in some articles of discipline which were not perhaps essential to and gently ridiculed the narrow tenets of his sect ..."

2. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1873)
"Some courts and judges have dissented from the general v < w. 6. Such acts have received a very strict construction. n. 1. Cases reviewed. 6. ..."

3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... using to complain of (the first I believe who used the expression) conformable puritans, who practised it out of policy, yet dissented from it in their ..."

4. An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies: Being by George Chalmers (1845)
"Act against Heretics dissented to. — Legal Opinion respecting Regal Dissents. — Practices complained of by the Board of Trade to the Privy Council. ..."

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