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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dissenter \Dis*sent"er\, noun
1. One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.
2. (Eccl.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. --Burke.
Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. --Shipley.
Note: ''The word is commonly applied only to Protestants. The Roman Catholics are generally referred to as a distinct class.'' --Brande & C.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dissenter
noun: a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: {dissident}, {protester}, {objector}, {contestant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissenter": Bohemian, Evangelical, Protestant, Reformationist, Reformed believer, Zwinglian, apostate, beatnik, demurrer, deviant, dissentient, dissident, dropout, flower child, freak, heretic, hippie, maverick, misbeliever, misfit, non-Catholic, nonconformist, nonjuror, objector, opinionist, opposition voice, original, protestant, protester, recusant, schismatic, sectarian, sectary, separatist, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie
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