Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
Used in a Sentence
dissenters
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dissenters.
Editorial note
If you're going to assert that within climate research itself there are very few dissenters; well, yes.
Examples17
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of dissenters gathered in one view.
A person who took part in the Dissenters' March in Moscow.
(UK) A Protestant Christian who does not follow the established church, the Church of England.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for dissenters.
noun
Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
noun
A person who took part in the Dissenters' March in Moscow.
noun
(UK) A Protestant Christian who does not follow the established church, the Church of England.
Example sentences
If you're going to assert that within climate research itself there are very few dissenters; well, yes.
(As in - throwing dissenters down mine shafts violent.) The West is partly to blame.
The Nazis would say the same of the Gestapo to dissenters, albeit with a tinge less arrogance.
Ousting dissenters from professional societies certainly is, as is trying to get journals shut down.
Also, problematic countries also frequently have some dissenters, and people that managed to flee and speak against it while outside it.
Roberts and Kagan are the only justices I haven't found an example of where they were lone dissenters.
The Nazis could use your arguments word for word on dissenters of the Gestapo.
This is not 1938, Saddam was not Hitler, and dissenters were not Chamberlains.
If art installations of this type became more commonplace we could begin to see dissenters manipulating them to make counterpoints.
These people suck, but totally blocking them eliminates the second class: Dissenters are people who just disagree with you, and considering nearly every open source project is started by opinionated dissenters it's just bound to happen.
But that power always gets used to subvert democracy and silence dissenters.
The communists locked their dissenters up in psychiatric hospitals.
Quote examples
The "questions for sponsors" bit is particularly sharp at cutting towards the discrepancy between the standards dissenters expected from the conference and those they saw.
Imagine if the Chinese Government sent a tweet to Github and they took down the "offensive" repos at one stroke over the protests of dissenters.
Proper noun examples
Dissenters were not Neville Chamberlains.
Dissenters/malcontents don't have an easy life, and they have to be absolutely freaking amazing (genius, good communication skills) to have any impact at all (or they are just written off as cranky, crackpots, or worse).
The idea of the Glorious Revolution as ushering in a democratic and free era was really only true if you were an Anglican, slightly less so for Dissenters, and very much less so for Catholics (both in Britain and Ireland).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use dissenters in a sentence?
If you're going to assert that within climate research itself there are very few dissenters; well, yes.
What does dissenters mean?
Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
What part of speech is dissenters?
dissenters is commonly used as noun.