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Dissident  n.  (Eccl.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. "The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidency as a laudable and necessary opposition to ecclesiastical usurpation."





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"Dissident" Quotes from Famous Books



... encroachments of the State. It was the 'liberalism' not of the 'ideologists' of 1790, nor of the Third Republic according to M. Challemel-Lacour, but of the legislators who gave Lower Canada her equitable system of common and of dissident schools. It was the liberalism of those courageous men who, like Montgaillard, Bishop of St.-Pons, had dared, under Louis XIV., and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to protest in 1688 against imposing the Catholic ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert


Words linked to "Dissident" :   unorthodox, dissenting, NIMBY, nonconformist, dissidence, objector, recusant, heterodox, dissenter, political dissident, soul, individual, protester, co, someone, negative, contestant, mortal


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