Dissenter meaning

dĭ-sĕntər
dissenters
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One who dissents.

Political dissenters.

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One who refuses to accept the doctrines or usages of an established or a national church, especially a Protestant who dissents from the Church of England.
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A person who dissents.
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A British Protestant who does not belong to the Anglican Church; Nonconformist.
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Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
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Dissenter Sentence Examples

  • He later became a dissenter, throwing over his original intention of going to Oxford University.

  • The lone dissenter to leave the world's fastest growing.

  • After the death of his father, who was a rigid Dissenter, his mother, left in poverty, lived with some Roman Catholic families.

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