01 a. No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
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No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.“Our life and manners be dissident from theirs.” — Robynson (More's Utopia).
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Webster, 1913
Dissident
02 n. One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
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One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.(Eccl.)“The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidenc� as a laudable and necessary opposition to ecclesiastical usurpation.” — I. Taylor.