Crossword clues for dissident
dissident
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissident \Dis"si*dent\, n. (Eccl.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his
dissidenc? as a laudable and necessary opposition to
ecclesiastical usurpation.
--I. Taylor.
Dissident \Dis"si*dent\, a. [L. dissidens, -entis, p. pr. of dissidere to sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit: cf. F. dissident. See Sit.] No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
Our life and manners be dissident from theirs.
--Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1766, in reference to Protestants, from dissident (adj.). In the political sense first used 1940, coinciding with the rise of 20c. totalitarian systems, especially with reference to the Soviet Union.
Wiktionary
a. In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant; different. n. 1 A person who formally opposes the current political structure, opposes the political group in power, opposes the policies of the political group in power, or opposes current laws. 2 (context ecclesiastical English) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
WordNet
adj. characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards [syn: heretical, heterodox]
disagreeing, especially with a majority [syn: dissentient, dissenting(a)]
n. a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: dissenter, protester, objector, contestant]
Wikipedia
A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When dissidents unite for a common cause they often affect a dissident movement.
The word has been used since 16th century in the context of religion. The noun was first used in the political sense in 1940, with the rise of such totalitarian systems as the Soviet Union.
"Dissident" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released in 1994 as the fourth single from the band's second studio album, Vs. (1993). The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was included on Pearl Jam's 2004 greatest hits album, rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003).
Dissident may be:
- Dissident - a person who actively opposes an established opinion, policy, or structure
- Dissident (song) - A Pearl Jam song
Dissident is the second studio by Deadline, released in 1991 by Day Eight Music.
Usage examples of "dissident".
The Inquisition was reinstituted, as were the privileges of the nobility, clergy, and military, and a heartless persecution was unleashed against dissidents, opponents, liberals, Francophiles, and former collaborators in the government of Joseph Bonaparte.
It appeared in the early 1970s that the dissident Kurds-- under the generalship of the legendary leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani--might actually carve out an independent Kurdish area in northern Iraq.
The permanent floating meatspace party Manfred is hooking up with is a strange attractor for some of the American exiles cluttering up the cities of Europe this decade not trustafarians, but honest-to-God political dissidents, draft dodgers, and terminal outsourcing victims.
There has been action against dissidents, but they had dealt with them and they are moving out.
The government is to consider a referendum on instituting a form of federal autonomy for the Matabele people, and, in return, I am to use all my influence to convince the armed dissidents to come in from the bush and surrender their weapons under general amnesty.
Without Clodius I understand the crossroads college dissidents are leaderless, but Cloelius ran them for Clodius, and now he can run them for me.
Gorlot, who had correctly assessed the greed of barons and patrol dissidents, seizing upon the unrest of the time to implement his scheme.
Lincoln knew he faced a stark choice: either back away from emancipation, ease up on the Democratic dissidents, woo the Republican conservatives, and accept the policy laid down in McClellan's Harrison's Landing planor do just the opposite.
They eventually made peace, but Ali was assassinated in 661 by a dissident.
Tomorrow he would be summoned to Chelise itself, to be asked to undertake a mission to the Culture world called Masaq’, to attempt to persuade the renegade and dissident Mahrai Ziller, composer, to return to his home-place and be the very symbol of the renaissance of Chel and the Chelgrian domain.
Kung Chong was an old hand at conducting raids on houses of dissidents when he was an agent with the People's Republic intelligence service.
Any bandit is labelled a political dissident, any grisly robbery an excuse to continue the purge, held up to the world as proof of the savagery and intractability of the Matabele tribe," Craig continued for him.
More rationing of almost every conceivable item, curfews, lights out, crackdowns on any dissident activity…all of these and many more policies were being instituted as allied forces pressed closer towards China from the northeast, from the east and from the south.
Hsiao had other contacts among the dissident officers, and the important thing was the destabilization of the That government.
At fifty-five he was the Party theoretician, spare, ascetic, disapproving, the scourge of dissidents and deviationists, guardian of Marxist purity, and consumed by a pathological loathing of the capitalist West.