Disagreeing, especially with a majority.
(Of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England.
1 But there was one dissentient voice in this chorus of general condemnation.
2 There was one dissentient voice-BrotherSchmidt; and he went and rescued them.
3 The sentence of death had been carried with only one dissentient voice.
4 Without a dissentient voice the Seigneur of Nordwyck was elected military commandant.
5 The directory, triumphant over the two dissentient parties, also triumphed over Europe.
6 This was voted without a dissentient voice, seeing that it cost nothing.
7 There is naturally no dissentient when hardly anybody seems to be sentient.
8 And in both cases an avowed dissentient is set down as 'crotchety.'
9 Some dissentient voices arose; an attempt at drunken ribaldry, strident hisses, 'Sh!
10 The term faction is usually reserved for a small dissentient group.
11 They tell you to strike the dissentient priests throughout the kingdom.
12 There was a chorus of agreement with only one dissentient voice.
13 From that moment it leagued more closely with the dissentient nobility.
14 Instantly the assembly was on its legs, eyeing the dissentient angrily.
15 The majority cheered, but there were not a few dissentient howls.
16 Though there were some dissentient voices, the majority were in favour of the spider-monkey.
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