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dissentients

dissentients is the plural of dissentient.

Meaning of dissentient

Noun

dissentient (plural dissentients)

  1. A dissenter.
    • The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

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Questions about dissentients

What is dissentients the plural of?
Dissentients is the plural of dissentient.

Words near dissentients in the dictionary

  1. dissenteth
  2. dissentience
  3. dissentiency
  4. dissentient
  5. dissentiently
  6. dissentients
  7. dissenting
  8. dissentingly
  9. dissention
  10. dissentions
  11. dissentious

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