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Definition of Dissented
1. dissent [v] - See also: dissent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissented
Literary usage of Dissented
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... who had dissented from the church in some articles of discipline which were
not perhaps essential to and gently ridiculed the narrow tenets of his sect ..."
2. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1873)
"Some courts and judges have dissented from the general v < w. 6. Such acts have
received a very strict construction. n. 1. Cases reviewed. 6. ..."
3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... using to complain of (the first I believe who used the expression) conformable
puritans, who practised it out of policy, yet dissented from it in their ..."
4. An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies: Being by George Chalmers (1845)
"Act against Heretics dissented to. — Legal Opinion respecting Regal Dissents.
— Practices complained of by the Board of Trade to the Privy Council. ..."
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