Dissenter - English meaning

noun

A person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.

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After fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith

adjective

Abandoning a religious or political belief or principle.

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An apostate roman catholic

noun

Someone who has given up their religion or left a political party

noun

A person engaged in a dispute or disagreement.

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He endeavoured to induce disputants to settle their quarrels out of court

noun

A person or thing that interrupts an event, activity, or process by causing a disturbance or problem.

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The film follows his evolution from hollywood star to political disruptor

noun

A person or thing that prevents something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected

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Endocrine/hormone disruptors, if customers talk to everybody else they get the status quo. we're th…

adjective

In opposition to a majority or official opinion.

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Dissentient voices were castigated as ‘hopeless bureaucrats’

noun

A person who opposes a majority or official opinion.

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It must think it really did win the last state election, even though the libs polled more votes and…

noun

A person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.

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A dissident who had been jailed by a military regime

adjective

In opposition to official policy.

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The measure was supported by dissident tories

noun

A person who strongly disagrees with and publicly criticizes a government or the official rulings of a group or organization

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Union dissidents have challenged the leadership of the current president., dissident views

noun

A person believing in or practising religious heresy.

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It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, o…

noun

A person who has beliefs that are opposed to the official belief of a church and that the church considers wrong

adjective

Free from outside control; not subject to another's authority.

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An independent nuclear deterrent

noun

An independent person or body.

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One of the few independents left in the music business

adjective

Not influenced or controlled by other people but free to make your own decisions

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An independent thinker, congress called for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigat…

noun

An unorthodox or independent-minded person.

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He's the maverick of the fashion scene

adjective

Unorthodox.

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A maverick detective

noun

A person who thinks and acts independently of and differently from others

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She is considered a political maverick.

noun

A person who expresses opposition to or disagreement with something.

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Objectors claim the motorway will damage the environment

noun

A person who publicly demonstrates opposition to something; a demonstrator.

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The decision was hailed by protesters against the closure as a triumph

noun

Someone who protests publicly about something, especially as part of a group

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Up to 100,000 protesters are expected to march., anti-war/civil rights protesters, fuel/tax protest…

noun

A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader.

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Tory rebels

verb

Rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or leader.

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The earl of pembroke subsequently rebelled against henry iii

noun

A person who refuses to accept the government’s power and uses force to oppose it, or a person who opposes authority and thinks or behaves differently

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The government tried to set up talks with the rebels., though he dressed unusually, he never meant …

noun

A person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

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An agent who later turns out to be a renegade

adjective

Having treacherously changed allegiance.

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A renegade bodyguard

verb

Become a renegade.

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Johnson had renegaded from the confederacy

adjective

Involving or causing a complete or dramatic change.

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A revolutionary new drug

noun

A person who advocates or engages in political revolution.

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They would act like any revolutionary vanguard, as lenin or indeed the french revolutionaries had i…