ADJECTIVE
- disagreeing, especially with a majority
- (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
How To Use dissentient In A Sentence
- Lastly, the problem of dissentient minorities must in the end be addressed if environmental protection regimes are to establish common rules and implement collective policies followed by all member states.
- However, it is not clear if this was the reality, and there were many dissentients from this thesis.
- We plead that wage-earning women who are economically independent of men by reason of their labour in shop, office, and factory should no longer be compelled to remain voiceless: the dissentients reply that the presence of women in those capacities is an anomaly of civilization, which will not be remedied by the creation o f a fresh anomaly. The Psychology of the Suffragette
- Seldom performed sequentially and together, they were taken up integrally in 1966 by a dissentient cellist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in an interpretation that changed the world's perception of Viennese sound.
- An acknowledged expert in finance, his budgets were received with scarcely a dissentient voice.
- The chapter identifies varied readings - dissident, resistant, heritagist, liberationist, nationalist, and dissentient - as responses to colonialism and to the after effects, neocolonialism.
- A claim might be made by dissentient member States that the actions of the organisation were not in compliance with its treaty.
- Madam Speaker, I draw your attention to the definition of ‘leave’ in Standing Order 3, which states that it ‘means permission to do something that is granted without a dissentient voice’.
- The words of dead poets are read and confirmed like the minutes of the previous meeting, with perhaps the dissentient voice of one Scotch shareholder.
- This is just another example of the ever-repeated tendency of the long established religions to produce dissentient sects.