Dissentient Definition

Dissentient Sentence Examples

• And yet dissentient voices are sometimes heard defending war as if it were an end in itself.

• The salon of Mme de Condorcet was throughout the Consulate and the first Empire a rallying point for the dissentient republicans.

• The dogma was at length carried by an overwhelming majority, and the dissentient bishops, who - with the exception of two - had left the council before the final division, one by one submitted (see Vatican Council).

• He was one of the 93 dissentient Liberals who by voting against the Liberal Government decided the fate of the Home Rule bill of 1886.

• A dissentient remnant (eight congregations) of the General Associate Synod united with the Constitutional Associate Presbytery in 1827, the resultant body being called the Associate Synod of Original Seceders.