Dissident : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Dissident	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dissident adj characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards Synonym(s): dissident, heretical, heterodox disagreeing, especially with a majority Synonym(s): dissentient, dissenting(a), dissident n a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dissident \Dis"sident\, a. [L. dissidens, -entis, p. pr. of dissidere to sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit: cf. F. dissident. See {Sit}.] No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident* from theirs. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dissident \Dis"si*dent\, n. (Eccl.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidenc[?] as a laudable and necessary opposition to ecclesiastical usurpation. --I. Taylor.