dissension vs dissent vs dissidents
Definitions
noun
- a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
- disagreement among those expected to cooperate
Examples
Considerate persons found something of the pathetic in their preoccupation by these trifles while, so clamantly, the dissension between the young King and his uncles gathered to a head: the air was thick with portents; and was this, then, an appropriate time, the judicious demanded of high Heaven, for the Queen of fearful England to concern herself about a peasant's toothache?
Being of an easy and tractable disposition he soon found the fashions of the court, and obtained a general love and notice of the nobility; for he was no carry-tale, nor flattering insinuator to breed discord and dissension, but an honest, plain, downright [man], that would speak home without halting, and tell the truth of purpose to shame the devil -- so that his plainness, mixed with
No questions were allowed and there was no debate, dissension or discouraging words.
Definitions
verb
- express opposition through action or words
- withhold assent
- be of different opinions
noun
- a difference of opinion
- the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent
- (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority
Examples
Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course).
Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives.
Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
