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dissent

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion. 2 An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority. 3 (context Anglo-American common law English) A ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissent \Dis*sent"\, n. The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement. The dissent of no small number [of peers] is frequently recorded. --Hallam. (Eccl.) Separation from ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin dissentire "differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel," from dis- "differently" (see dis- ) + sentire "to feel, think" (see sense (n.)). Related: Dissented ; dissenting . The noun is 1580s, from the verb.\nHas ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dissent is a philosophy of non-agreement with a prevailing idea or entity Dissent may also mean: Dissent (American magazine) , an American political magazine Dissent! (network) , a G8 protest group Dissenting opinion , a judicial opinion which is contrary ...

Usage examples of dissent.

Dissenting diplomats from abroad sent messages which expressed the Allied Powers opinion that it was necessary that the Hungarian Government follow the example of the Rumanian King Michael, and the Hungarian Ambassador at Ankara Voernle received similar advice from the English Ambassador in the same town.

American commercial culture co-opted the counterculture of communes and simple living, commodifying dissent, and selling it back to the dissenters.

How the justices who later dissented could have brought themselves to join this per curiam opinion defies understandingunless they, too, were playing a game, trying to prevent a result with which they disagreed by forestalling the possibility that the Court would have to overrule the state court.

Gavin, Fulbright himself and several colleagues spoke for the dissent.

The Nicolotti knew it well when, a few months before, they had unanimously elected him to rule over them--as their chief officers had realized it when they had nominated him, without a dissenting voice, to this position of gastaldo grande--a position of great honor fully recognized by the government.

The cost of such vigilance was that Du Vrangr Gata ended up spying on the Varden as much as on their enemies, a fact that Nasuada made sure to conceal from the bulk of her followers, for it would only sow hatred, distrust, and dissent.

Unburdened by pie charts, statistics, or much else in the way of argument or evidence, the book is written in a tone of steady, murmuring apocalyptic dissent, with an occasional perky nod to a familiar neoliberal argument.

Over the dissent of Justice Iredell, the Court in opinions by Chief Justice Jay and Justices Blair, Wilson, and Cushing, sustained its jurisdiction and its power, in the absence of Congressional enactments, to provide forms of process and rules of procedure.

Case is discussed in the opinions of Justices Jackson and Rutledge and in the dissent of Chief Justice Vinson in National Mutual Insurance Co.

Hearing not a word of dissent, Mikhail ordered Sea Devil back to the seafloor, where its unique tracked propulsion system took over.

A second consequence of the Reformation is seen in the numerous dissenting sects to which its issues gave rise.

The Flamingohawk, Limpkin and Shoebill insisted that the record show their voices to be the dissenting ones.

All that takes place upon the earth befalls according to the eternal decree of God, a conception in which, at least among the Orthodox Moslems, the Sunnites, who are distinguished in this respect, as in others, from the dissenting Shiites, there is no place left for human freedom.

All that dissent are a few small ones and the mighty leader of the Taranaki Maori, Chief Wiremu Kingi.

Saddam has a history of shooting the messenger and seeing dissenting views as challenges to his authority--challenges usually met with dismissal or summary execution.