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Dissentient

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Dissenting; of a different opinion.

    "Moody and Sankey had sung their way into every dissentient chapel, and Boshy appreciated their words thoroughly, and sang them to a wrong tune incessantly."

Adjective
  1. 1
    disagreeing, especially with a majority wordnet
  2. 2
    (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A dissenter.

    "The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Latin dissentiēns (“dissenting”).

Etymology 2

From the Latin dissentiēns (“dissenting”).

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