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Webster 1913 Edition
Dissentient
Dis-sen′tient
,Adj.
Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting.
– Noun.
One who dissents.
Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dissentient
DISSENTIENT
,Adj.
DISSENTIENT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
dissentient
dissentient
English
Noun
dissentient (plural dissentients)
- A dissenter.
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- 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.
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Adjective
dissentient (comparative more dissentient, superlative most dissentient)
- Dissenting; of a different opinion.
- 1914, Saki, ‘The Story-teller’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 354:
- A dissentient opinion came from the aunt.
- 1914, Saki, ‘The Story-teller’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 354: