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Definition of Dissidents
1. dissident [n] - See also: dissident
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissidents
Literary usage of Dissidents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy: A Half-Century of U.S by Glenn E. Schweitzer (2004)
"dissidents, REFUSENIKS, AND THE EXILE OF ANDREY SAKHAROV During the 1970s and
1980s, human rights became an important dimension of the US-Soviet ..."
2. Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Reformation in by Walerjan Skorobohaty Krasinski, Valerian Krasinski (1840)
"The dissidents are restored to their rights and privileges, but in a very
preposterous manner. ... Restrictions imposed on the dissidents (1775) ..."
3. Studies in European Politics by Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1866)
"The question of the dissidents is one of the gravest with which ... among the
dissidents, and this is the reason why they are treated with so much harshness ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"1662 he issued his first Declaration of Indulgence, in which he undertook, with
the concurrence of parliament, to exercise on behalf of religious dissidents ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... see below), was distributed as follows : Orthodox Greek including the United
Greek Church, 87123,- 604; dissidents, including the Old Believers, ..."
6. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1885)
"... so, by this bill, the temporal jurisdiction alone was to have cognisance of
dissidents.f Two offences were created to be remedied: to the one the right ..."
7. Sketch of the religious history of the Slavonic nations by Walerjan Skorobohaty Krasiński, Valerian Krasinski (1851)
"... their country—Restoration of the anti-Romanists or dissidents to their ancient
rights by foreign influence—Observations on this subject—General remarks ..."
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