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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dissenter
n : a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: dissident,
protester, objector, contestant]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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