Crossword clues for dissenter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissenter \Dis*sent"er\, n.
One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.
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(Eccl.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries.
--Burke.Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter.
--Shipley.Note: ``The word is commonly applied only to Protestants. The Roman Catholics are generally referred to as a distinct class.''
--Brande & C.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, in 17c. especially of religions (with a capital D- from 1670s); agent noun from dissent.
Wiktionary
n. someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church
WordNet
n. a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: dissident, protester, objector, contestant]
Wikipedia
A dissenter (from the Latin dissentire, “to disagree”), is one who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc. In the social and religious history of England and Wales, and, by extension, Ireland, however, it refers particularly to a member of a religious body who has, for one reason or another, separated from the Established Church or any other kind of Protestant who refuses to recognise the supremacy of the Established Church in areas where the established Church is or was Anglican.
Originally, the term included English and Welsh Roman Catholics whom the original draft of the Nonconformist Relief Act 1779 styled " Protesting Catholic Dissenters." In practice, however, it designates Protestant Dissenters referred to in sec. ii. of the Act of Toleration of 1689 (see English Dissenters.)
The term has also been applied to those bodies who dissent from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland which is the national church of Scotland. In this connotation the terms "dissenter" and "dissenting," which had acquired a somewhat contemptuous flavor, have tended since the middle of the 18th century to be replaced by " nonconformist," a term which did not originally imply secession, but only refusal to conform in certain particulars (for example the wearing of the surplice) with the authorized usages of the Established Church.
Still more recently the term "nonconformist" has in its turn, as the political attack on the principle of a state establishment of religion developed, tended to give place to the style of “ free churches” and “Free Churchman.” All three terms continue in use, “nonconformist” being the most usual, as it is the most colourless.
Usage examples of "dissenter".
The Crane Hearth once had a high status, and there had been people in other Camps who had been willing to sponsor them, but there had always been dissenters, and there could be no dissenters.
The beautiful, wonderful Schlaraffenland or Cockaigne or lubberland all rolled into one improbable thing, the country where dissenters are shot at sight and the laws are obeyed immediately or else.
American commercial culture co-opted the counterculture of communes and simple living, commodifying dissent, and selling it back to the dissenters.
That portion of the Jensen opinion emphasizing Congressional power in this respect has never been in issue in either the opinions of the dissenters in that case or in subsequent opinions critical of it, which in effect invite Congress to exercise its power to modify the maritime law.
Dissenters against Whigism in general, and the government leaders of that school as its most prominent advocates.
But what amused me most in his history was this, that very soon after having embraced Islam he was obliged in practice to become curious and discriminating in his new faith, to make war upon Mahometan dissenters, and follow the orthodox standard of the Prophet in fierce campaigns against the Wahabees, who are the Unitarians of the Mussulman world.
And it was with a wonderful address that the banker contrived at once to support the government, and yet, by the frequent expression of liberal opinions, to conciliate the Whigs and the Dissenters of his neighbourhood.
They were, in short, heathens and -- as they were once complacently catalogued by a distinguished prelate of the Church of England -- Dissenters.
Or let those dissenters enjoy but the same privileges in civils as his other subjects, and he will quickly find that these religious meetings will be no longer dangerous.
One of the very few exceptions I know of is the noted sf writer Theodore Sturgeon's novel Venus Plus X (1960), which depicts a Utopia in the classic sense, complete with universal brotherhood, understanding, intelligence, love and no dissenters in sight.
Come to think of it, those “Dutchmen” had looked a great deal more like English religious Dissenters than they had like actual Dutchmen, who (if the grapevine was to be believed) had long ago ditched their old Pilgrimish togs (which had been inspired by Spanish fashions anyway) and now dressed like everyone else in Europe.
And he ought industriously to exhort all men, whether private persons or magistrates (if any such there be in his church), to charity, meekness, and toleration, and diligently endeavour to ally and temper all that heat and unreasonable averseness of mind which either any man’s fiery zeal for his own sect or the craft of others has kindled against dissenters.
Caliban didn’t seem capable of providing it, but Troi began to wonder if there were other Dissenters, like Amoret, who might.
The computers assumed that these “fictions” were illusions created by the Dissenters, like cheap magic tricks.
Ferris was not, in reality, a hero, he was a monkey who did what he was told, but because the people of Rampart had no other outlet for their minds’ unconscious needs, they made Ferris a hero (after all, he looked like one) and the Dissenters an evil force for the hero to vanquish.