Dissent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISSENT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to disagree
• hold or express opinions that are at variance with those commonly or officially held
• disagree with the doctrine of an established or orthodox Church.
• To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.
• To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.
• To differ; to be of a contrary nature.
• withhold assent
• express opposition through action or words
• be of different opinions
• disagree
NOUN:
• the holding or expression of opinions at variance with those commonly or officially held
• refusal to accept the doctrines of an established or orthodox Church; nonconformity
• a statement by a judge giving reasons as to why he or she disagrees with a decision made by the other judges in a court case
• The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.
• Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.
• Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.
• (law) the difference of one judge\'s opinion from that of the majority
• a difference of opinion
• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent
• disagreement
• (in sport) the offence of expressing disagreement with the referee's decision

Words related to DISSENT

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Words that contain DISSENT

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How to use DISSENT in a sentence

• Rufus not only made a sign of dissent, but actually held the hand of Subrius as it was grasping the hilt of his sword.
• It showed that it was intelligently following the reading of it, for there was dissent when Article Eight was reached.
• Preston, but I must dissent from both your statements.
• Morality, discarded alike by high and low, took refuge in the great Middle Class, then, as now, deeply influenced by Evangelical Dissent.
• I felt myself, therefore, constrained to withhold from it my approval, and now return it to the Senate, in which it originated, with the reasons on which my dissent is founded.
• Dissent, of course, would naturally rather dislike a movement of the kind.
• When such a federation was dissolved, by defeat or inner dissent, individual tribes or groups of tribes could join a new federation or could resume independent life.
• Personal friends, grieved that he should feel offended, and doubly sorry that the general harmony should be marred by even a single dissent, followed Mr.
• But on this issue the chorus of dissent was most emphatic.
• Others would dissent from our position by saying that service, the life of good will, is a sufficient worship.
• In the Confederacy itself nearly all dissent was silenced by war.
• But now, by the Protestant rebellion, that spell was broken, and the right of peoples to choose their faith, in dissent from a Church declared corrupt, was loudly proclaimed.
• The maintenance of these arrangements is in no wise dependent on the assent or dissent, on the good will or ill-will, of any Chief at Kabul.
• Give me a man who is always flinging his dissent to my doctrines smack in my teeth.
• Many persons, of course, will find statements from which they dissent, sentiments disagreeable to them.
• And Tennyson is the climax of this dissent from Pope and Dryden as elaborated in Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, Thomson, and Wordsworth.
• His impassive face expressed no emotion, neither assent nor dissent.
• The first reading was carried without a division, the Duke of Richmond being the only peer who expressed dissent.
• George Bancroft, the historian, stepped up, and quite surprised me by expressing to the judge in quite vigorous language his strong dissent from the decision.
• Pierce, have in such thrilling tones expressed their dissent from the judgment of this tribunal.
• The strenuous toil of the gentleman has been to raise an inconsistency between my dissent to the tariff in 1824, and my vote in 1828.
• But, notwithstanding our dissent, the great States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky went for the bill, in almost unbroken column, and it passed.
• But there was dissent in some cases, bitter and vehement, followed sometimes by bloodshed.
• Very often the excuse that is set up is some form of theological dissent.
• His earliest motives of dissent seem to have been personal and artistic.
• It has, on the contrary, been expressly made a subject of remark, and almost of complaint, that the language in which my dissent was couched was studiously guarded and cautious.
• I am bold enough to dissent, if by education is meant a course of study imposed from without.
• Whether Dissent is a permanent necessity in England is a more difficult question, in spite of the class differences of temperament above mentioned.
• Nor is it at all clear that as regards amnesty any Anti-Parnellite dare dissent from the doctrine of Mr.

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