Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of dissenting; dissent.
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Examples
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It is not quite satisfactory to hold the same sentiments, in every small particular, with a man who clips his hair down to a quarter of an inch, and eats haricots with his fingers; but it was impossible to find any subject on which he could be roused to dissentience.
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He argued that although "anger" was used to advertise these emergent talents, a better word for their "new spirit" would be "dissentience", a dissent from "majority sentiments and opinions".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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He argued that although "anger" was used to advertise these emergent talents, a better word for their "new spirit" would be "dissentience", a dissent from "majority sentiments and opinions".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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