dissenter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++dis·sent·er /dɪˈsentə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 1 a person or organization that disagrees with an official decision or accepted opinion 〔对官方决定或公认观点〕持异议者,持不同意见者 Political dissenters were imprisoned. 持不同政见者遭到监禁。2. (also Dissenter) someone in the past who did not accept the beliefs of the established Protestant church in Western Europe 〔旧时西欧的〕不信奉新教者,不顺从新教者 SYN non-conformist
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dissenter• A later residence in Northamptonshire was licensed in 1673 for dissenter meetings, in spite of his earlier bad reputation there.• But in practice, if most countries want to go ahead with something, they may well ignore a lone dissenter.• Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.• It even published the minority views of dissenters.• Soviet dissenters were persecuted more actively and severely in 1980 than had been the case in 1976.• They did not honor the dissenters.dis·sent·er nounChineseSyllable
person that a disagrees decision Corpus with an organization official or
dissenter
dis‧sent‧er /dɪˈsentə $ -ər/
noun [countable]
1. a person or organization that disagrees with an official decision or accepted opinion:
Political dissenters were imprisoned.
2. (also Dissenter) someone in the past who did not accept the beliefs of the established Protestant church in Western Europe
SYN non-conformist
dis‧sent‧er /dɪˈsentə $ -ər/
noun [countable]1. a person or organization that disagrees with an official decision or accepted opinion:
2. (also Dissenter) someone in the past who did not accept the beliefs of the established Protestant church in Western Europe
SYN non-conformist