Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character of dissent; belonging to or connected with a body of dissenters: as, a dissenting minister or congregation; a dissenting chapel. See
dissenter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective disagreeing, especially with a majority.
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- verb Present participle of
dissent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disagreeing, especially with a majority
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Examples
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Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson gave it vivid expression many years ago when he said, in dissenting from a free-speech decision he thought doctrinaire, that the Bill of Rights should not be made into a suicide pact.
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Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson gave it vivid expression many years ago when he said, in dissenting from a free-speech decision he thought doctrinaire, that the Bill of Rights should not be made into a suicide pact.
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What began as an individual cri de coeur became an international movement working to protect anyone imprisoned for the expression of dissenting opinion.
Amnesty International: 60 years of service and its vision and relevance are undimmed 2011
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Anybody who still insists on dissenting is criminally insane and is deatlt with accordingly.
Add Garrison Keillor to the ‘Kill Off Republicans’ List. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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For links to the lower court opinion striking down the program, and to the opinions concurring in and dissenting from the denial of en banc rehearing of that decision, see here.
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However, I disagree that he is an evil choice, that somehow Notre Dame is dissenting from the Catholic Church by selecting him.
Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame 2009
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Those dissenting from the unsigned, per curiam opinion were the Chief Justice, and Justices Scalia, Kennedy, and Sotomayor.
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Apparently, neither do some critics of a congressional resolution dissenting from the so-called "surge."
Democracy in Action 2007
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Staying on the ISG, whether concurring with or dissenting from the final report, would have forced Rudy to go on the record with an actual opinion on what should be done about Iraq.
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More recently, in McCreary County v. ACLU, dissenting from a decision barring one ceremonial display of the Ten Commandments, he frankly acknowledged that ceremonial theism would entail “contradicting the beliefs of some people that there are many gods, or that God or the gods pay no attention to human affairs.”
Balkinization 2007
GHibbs commented on the word dissenting
My adjectival use: 'You will need to learn how to work with dissenting students.'
August 22, 2011