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Definition of Dissentients
1. dissentient [n] - See also: dissentient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissentients
Literary usage of Dissentients
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"Any State in the Empire might set up either form of faith as its State religion,
permission being given to dissentients to dispose of their estates and ..."
2. The History of Brazil: From the Period of the Arrival of the Braganza Family by John Armitage (1836)
"... and declaration of independence—All dissentients subjected to banishment—Election
of Don Pedro as Emperor—State and prospects of the new Empire, ..."
3. Life of James Green: Doctor of Divinity, Rector and Dean of Maritzburg by Augustus Theodore Wirgman (1909)
"But this was not the idea of the Natal dissentients. Their idea of the Bishop
sent out to them from Canterbury resembled the Russian Grand Duke's idea of an ..."
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