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dissenter

dissenter noun: someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.

Noun (1)

dissenter (plural dissenters)

  1. Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
    • As my study proceeded, I began to see that an investigation of organizational morality should also explore managerial dissenters, so-called whistleblowers, many of whom take stands against their organizations on grounds that they define as moral.1988, Robert Jackall, “Author's Note”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 242
    Synonyms:
    dissident

Noun (2) capitalized: Dissenter

Dissenter (plural Dissenters)

  1. (UK) A Protestant Christian who does not follow the established church, the Church of England.
    • Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) Nonconformist, recusant, Free Churchman; autem cackler (archaic cant)
    • Is it not apparent how vigorouſly they aſſail the whole Body of the Diſſenters, Men of Religious, Serious, Upright and moſt Loyal Principles, under the ſcandalous Names of Fanaticks and Whiggs.1682, Henry Care, “Preface”, in A Perfect Guide for Protestant Dissenters, in Case of Prosecution upon Any of the Penal Statutes Made against Them, London: R. Baldwin
  2. A person who took part in the Dissenters' March in Moscow.

dissenter meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

dissenter in Tamil

முரண்பாடுடையவர்

dissenter in Urdu

غیرمقلد, مخالف, رافذی

dissenter in Malayalam

objector, dissent, dissentient
ഭിന്നമതി, ഭിന്നാഭിപ്രായമുള്ളയാൾ, വിമതൻ, ഖണ്ഡനകാരൻ, അഭിപ്രായവ്യത്യാസമുള്ളയാൾ, ഔദ്യോഗികപക്ഷത്തോടു ചോരാത്തയാൾ

Examples of dissenter in a sentence

  • Such an approach generally recruits more dissenters and radicalises their actions.
  • Dissenters, when they speak out, are hounded, ostracized and sometimes even forced from their jobs.
  • Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.

All 10 example sentences with dissenter

Synonyms of dissenter

Forms of dissenter

pluraldissenters
pluralDissenters

Origin of dissenter

From dissent + -er.

Words formed from dissenter

Words that rhyme with dissenter

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Questions about dissenter

What does dissenter mean?
Dissenter means someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
What is dissenter in Tamil?
Dissenter in Tamil is முரண்பாடுடையவர். See Dissenter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dissenter?
Dissenter is a noun.
What is the plural of dissenter?
The plural of dissenter is dissenters.

Words near dissenter in the dictionary

  1. dissentaneousness
  2. dissentany
  3. dissentation
  4. dissentations
  5. dissented
  6. dissenter
  7. dissenterish
  8. dissenterism
  9. dissenterisms
  10. dissenters
  11. dissentest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dissenter (page history and authors); Dissenter (page history and authors); dissenter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissenter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissenter (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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