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Synonyms for dissenter

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dih-sen-ter

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɛn tər

Définition of dissenter

Origin : 1630s, in 17c. especially of religions (with a capital D- from 1670s); agent noun from dissent.

noun dissident

Example sentences :

Persecution of a dissenter is always popular in the group which he has abandoned.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

The dissenter, who declined to pay church-rates, was an unsocial person.
Extract from : « The Toilers of the Field » by Richard Jefferies

I am a dissenter, and do not wish my boy to subscribe to the school mission.'
Extract from : « The Longest Journey » by E. M. Forster

His mother's a Dissenter, it is true, but the principles of that boy is beautiful.
Extract from : « The Perpetual Curate » by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

You may be very thankful, in that respect, that you are not a dissenter.
Extract from : « Phoebe, Junior » by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

“I hope you will find that, Dissenter or not, I know what is my duty to my friends,” he said.
Extract from : « Phoebe, Junior » by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

And do you know he is an Old Believer, or rather a dissenter?
Extract from : « Crime and Punishment » by Fyodor Dostoevsky

But after all its not so bad as if Adrienne were a Dissenter and wanted to go to chapel!
Extract from : « Adrienne Toner » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

No Dissenter can complain, if the ground of his dissent be removed from the Church.
Extract from : « Church Reform » by Richard Carlile

I believe, if he hadn't been a dissenter, things might have been all right.
Extract from : « The Passion for Life » by Joseph Hocking

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