Definition of dissent in English:

dissent

noun dɪˈsɛntdəˈsɛnt

mass noun

1The holding or expression of opinions at variance with those commonly or officially held.
不同意
there was no dissent from this view
没有与此不同的观点。
Example sentencesExamples
- An ‘anti-national’ Press is not alone in its dissent from the orchestrated spectacle.
- He has just about put the lid on dissent from within the Cabinet.
- But in a move seen as an attempt to quell this dissent from the back benches, Mr Cullen announced the abolition of plans for the direct election of mayors.
- He pointed out that it was easy to exaggerate the importance of Australian expressions of dissent from Allied plans, and Curtin's messages.
- Protest, chant, yell, shout your dissent from the rooftops.
- To march is a symbolic act not only of dissent from the government's position but to remind everyone that a people is not - and can never be - the same as a regime.
- The move caused widespread discontent in the Conservative Party and open dissent from leading modernisers.
- Brown wrote the Committee for the Nation expressing his dissent from the President's gold purchasing program in late 1933.
- There is some dissent from this among the comments - particularly Carrie.
- This is the first sign of an Opposition shaping up to reflect current dissent from so many of current government policies.
- The policy has apparently generated little dissent from within the Scouts.
- One is composed of intellectuals, people who preach dissent from the values of the ‘core culture.’
- When a state's appropriation imparts too generous a benefit to religion alone, the establishment clause should provide a pathway to dissent.
- Fair enough, but why did we hear so little dissent from within the movement?
- I have continually argued for France's right to express its dissent from the opinion of the international community.
- But this is exactly the model that China has chosen to take - with little in the way of dissent from the ‘international community’.
- Yet the organisation, with no dissent from the Executive or the Crown Office, continues to stand by its discredited experts.
- There have been some signs of dissent from Barnaby Joyce and Queensland Liberal Senator David Johnston about the states' rights implications of the plans.
- It is at delicate moments in world affairs, such as this, that expressions of widespread dissent from opinion-formers can become a real political force.
- These words provoked no murmurs of dissent from this largely Republican crowd.
Synonyms
disagreement, lack of agreement, difference of opinion, argument, dispute, demur
disapproval, objection, protest, opposition, defiance, insubordination
conflict, friction, strife
arguing, quarrelling, wrangling, bickering
1. 1.1 Refusal to accept the doctrines of an established or orthodox Church; nonconformity.
  对国教（或东正教教义）不遵循
  rural communities with a long tradition of Dissent
  Example sentencesExamples
  A state religious court evaluating nonconformity or dissent deserves whatever answers it receives.
  It seems to me that this approach to dissent has the potential to be pastorally disastrous.
  That kind of perspective teaches me the need to respect dissent, nonconformity, and liberty of conscience as priority Baptist values.
  They issue Tracts carrying forward a debate about Anglican identity: the Church of England would be Catholic but it would stand against Popery on the one hand and dissent on the other.
  Any dissent or questioning of the group's teachings is discouraged.
  A theology of dissent has become the new establishment.
  Church, democracy and dissent: Paul Rule reviews two books by Paul Collins.
  Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives.
  No thesis of theology escapes criticism, and no edict is exempt from conscientious dissent.
  Are you getting at the fact that perhaps what we see in religious practice is not so much dissent, active opposition, but a kind of muddling through?
  Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization.
  It called for a new crackdown on doctrinal dissent, and recommended a papal investigation of American seminaries, the subtext of which was to blame gays.
  I maintained that my dissent was not from core tenets of Catholic faith, but from noninfallible church teachings.
  Or in the face of dissent when his party had lost their way and run short of food the avid Bible student resorted to his Scriptures.
  The Inquisition's actions would be excessive today because we have the leisure to tolerate dissent with no threat to our survival - not as yet, at any rate.
  One perspective reflected a background of English / Welsh dissent and the other a Scots / Irish covenanter tradition.
  For all liberals, the stumbling block in Newman's work is his consistently held conviction that the act of faith allows no room at all for dissent or doubt.
2. 1.2 (in sport) the offence of expressing disagreement with the referee's decision.
  （运动用语）不服从裁判
  he was sent off for dissent
  他因为不服从裁判而被罚下场。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The referee is surrounded by a mass of home team players, three of whom are cautioned for dissent, and the goalkeeper is sent off violent conduct.
  On the next Lancaster defence one of Bury's players was sent out for dissent to the referee.
  Not even a week has passed since his reprieve and Ganguly has been penalised again, this time for showing dissent against an umpiring decision.
  Showing dissent at umpiring decisions can amount to violation of the conduct code for players.
  Rotherham did not help their cause when they had a player sent off for dissent after arguing the decision to award a short corner.
3. 1.3US count noun 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.
  〈美〉异议声明（法官在庭审案件中对其他法官作出的裁决有异议时所做的解释性声明）
  he wasted no time in cranking out nine majority opinions, as well as three dissents
  Example sentencesExamples
  The two-clerk era, saw an annual average of 107 opinions of the court, 78 dissents and 33 concurrences.
  He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench.
  Thus, over 2 strong dissents, the Court did not permit the misappropriation claim.
  She has written or joined eighty-seven dissents from court decisions she deemed insufficiently activist in scope and character.
  Now consider this dissent from Planned Parenthood vs. Casey by Antonin Scalia.
  That this is Justice White's position is clearly affirmed by Justice John Paul Stevens' comments on Justice White's dissent.
  In his biting dissent Justice Antonin Scalia charged that Justice Stevens' unusual approach was a result of judicial bias in favor of abortion.
  One suspects that their ultimate target was Justice Rehnquist's dissent in Jaffree, and that their goal was to repair the damage to Everson's foundation.
  Thus Justice Douglas' dissent was based on an unproven supposition.
  Simmons-Harris, was of course the most newsworthy aspect of the decision, but the dissents were no less revealing.

verb dɪˈsɛntdəˈsɛnt

[no object]

1Hold or express opinions that are at variance with those commonly or officially held.
不同意
two members dissented from the majority
有两个成员不同意大多数人的意见。
Example sentencesExamples
- People can disagree, differ and dissent, even within the ruling party, without this negatively affecting the stability of our country and the peace that we continue to enjoy.
- Some of them were actually aggressive, convinced that anyone who dissented from the view that their child was a genius must be motivated by malice.
- Only one Senator out of the hundred dissented from the passage of the Patriot Act, which is providing unprecedented powers for law enforcement bodies.
- Most participants dissented from time to time and said they did not want to go on, but the researcher would prod them to continue.
- Even before the dramatic escalation of hostilities yesterday, two Labor MPs publicly dissented from Labor's position.
- He tangled with other cardinals and disciplined church officials who dissented from official church policy.
- What's the difference between dissenting by deciding and taking the law into your own hands?
- However, some Democrats dissented from that conclusion.
- He can be unpredictable and even manage to dissent from established opinion, if only on the margin.
- Not one Supreme Court justice dissented from the Moyer opinion, which was drafted by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- No respondent dissented from the vocational view, but teachers rarely voiced it.
- Seven judges expressed a separate opinion, while two dissented from the majority.
- Alito, on the Circuit Court had dissented from the majority and said that Congress had the right to so act.
- The third judge, Lord Justice Neuberger, dissented from this, stating that he did not consider it conducive to a fair trial.
- On every matter on which he could have dissented from the Government in its formation, he has gone with the Government.
- For the right it is an article of faith that scientists are dogmatic atheists with the will and the power to crush anyone who dissents from orthodoxy.
- Only a fool likes to hear the sound of his own voice. We welcome dissenting opinions.
- They don't extend to justices who have dissented from the principle.
- When I dissented from the liberal line on race, the Texas papers depicted me as a racist.
- But a significant minority in the Conservative Party dissented from this view.
1. 1.1 Disagree with the doctrine of an established or orthodox Church.
  对国教（或东正教教义）不遵循
  Example sentencesExamples
  That is, we dissented from somebody else's religion, and we paid the price for it.
  Baptists dissented from a state religion that claimed the right to determine what should be believed and how belief should be practiced.
  Along the way, Fraser reminds us, various sects dissented and established parochial schools.
  Iranian historians were biased towards groups that dissented from mainstream Islam and rebelled against the Islamic caliphate.
  There developed in Qumran a Jewish sect that dissented from Sadduceanism and was hostile to the Pharisians.
  Synonyms
  differ, demur, diverge
  disagree with, fail to agree with, express disagreement with, be at variance/odds with, argue with, take issue with
  decline/refuse to support, not ratify, protest against, object to, dispute, challenge, quibble over
  reject, repudiate, renounce, abjure

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin dissentire 'differ in sentiment'.

Definition of dissent in US English:

dissent

noundəˈsentdəˈsɛnt

1The expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held.
不同意
there was no dissent from this view
没有与此不同的观点。
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet the organisation, with no dissent from the Executive or the Crown Office, continues to stand by its discredited experts.
- Brown wrote the Committee for the Nation expressing his dissent from the President's gold purchasing program in late 1933.
- When a state's appropriation imparts too generous a benefit to religion alone, the establishment clause should provide a pathway to dissent.
- It is at delicate moments in world affairs, such as this, that expressions of widespread dissent from opinion-formers can become a real political force.
- He pointed out that it was easy to exaggerate the importance of Australian expressions of dissent from Allied plans, and Curtin's messages.
- He has just about put the lid on dissent from within the Cabinet.
- An ‘anti-national’ Press is not alone in its dissent from the orchestrated spectacle.
- But this is exactly the model that China has chosen to take - with little in the way of dissent from the ‘international community’.
- Fair enough, but why did we hear so little dissent from within the movement?
- This is the first sign of an Opposition shaping up to reflect current dissent from so many of current government policies.
- To march is a symbolic act not only of dissent from the government's position but to remind everyone that a people is not - and can never be - the same as a regime.
- But in a move seen as an attempt to quell this dissent from the back benches, Mr Cullen announced the abolition of plans for the direct election of mayors.
- There have been some signs of dissent from Barnaby Joyce and Queensland Liberal Senator David Johnston about the states' rights implications of the plans.
- The move caused widespread discontent in the Conservative Party and open dissent from leading modernisers.
- There is some dissent from this among the comments - particularly Carrie.
- I have continually argued for France's right to express its dissent from the opinion of the international community.
- These words provoked no murmurs of dissent from this largely Republican crowd.
- Protest, chant, yell, shout your dissent from the rooftops.
- The policy has apparently generated little dissent from within the Scouts.
- One is composed of intellectuals, people who preach dissent from the values of the ‘core culture.’
Synonyms
disagreement, lack of agreement, difference of opinion, argument, dispute, demur
1. 1.1 Refusal to accept the doctrines of an established or orthodox Church; nonconformity.
  对国教（或东正教教义）不遵循
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Inquisition's actions would be excessive today because we have the leisure to tolerate dissent with no threat to our survival - not as yet, at any rate.
  Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives.
  No thesis of theology escapes criticism, and no edict is exempt from conscientious dissent.
  One perspective reflected a background of English / Welsh dissent and the other a Scots / Irish covenanter tradition.
  For all liberals, the stumbling block in Newman's work is his consistently held conviction that the act of faith allows no room at all for dissent or doubt.
  Or in the face of dissent when his party had lost their way and run short of food the avid Bible student resorted to his Scriptures.
  Church, democracy and dissent: Paul Rule reviews two books by Paul Collins.
  That kind of perspective teaches me the need to respect dissent, nonconformity, and liberty of conscience as priority Baptist values.
  Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization.
  A state religious court evaluating nonconformity or dissent deserves whatever answers it receives.
  They issue Tracts carrying forward a debate about Anglican identity: the Church of England would be Catholic but it would stand against Popery on the one hand and dissent on the other.
  I maintained that my dissent was not from core tenets of Catholic faith, but from noninfallible church teachings.
  It seems to me that this approach to dissent has the potential to be pastorally disastrous.
  Any dissent or questioning of the group's teachings is discouraged.
  Are you getting at the fact that perhaps what we see in religious practice is not so much dissent, active opposition, but a kind of muddling through?
  A theology of dissent has become the new establishment.
  It called for a new crackdown on doctrinal dissent, and recommended a papal investigation of American seminaries, the subtext of which was to blame gays.

verbdəˈsentdəˈsɛnt

[no object]

1Hold or express opinions that are at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially expressed.
不同意
two members dissented from the majority
有两个成员不同意大多数人的意见。
Example sentencesExamples
- Not one Supreme Court justice dissented from the Moyer opinion, which was drafted by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- He can be unpredictable and even manage to dissent from established opinion, if only on the margin.
- Most participants dissented from time to time and said they did not want to go on, but the researcher would prod them to continue.
- People can disagree, differ and dissent, even within the ruling party, without this negatively affecting the stability of our country and the peace that we continue to enjoy.
- No respondent dissented from the vocational view, but teachers rarely voiced it.
- Only a fool likes to hear the sound of his own voice. We welcome dissenting opinions.
- Seven judges expressed a separate opinion, while two dissented from the majority.
- When I dissented from the liberal line on race, the Texas papers depicted me as a racist.
- For the right it is an article of faith that scientists are dogmatic atheists with the will and the power to crush anyone who dissents from orthodoxy.
- But a significant minority in the Conservative Party dissented from this view.
- The third judge, Lord Justice Neuberger, dissented from this, stating that he did not consider it conducive to a fair trial.
- Only one Senator out of the hundred dissented from the passage of the Patriot Act, which is providing unprecedented powers for law enforcement bodies.
- However, some Democrats dissented from that conclusion.
- Some of them were actually aggressive, convinced that anyone who dissented from the view that their child was a genius must be motivated by malice.
- He tangled with other cardinals and disciplined church officials who dissented from official church policy.
- Even before the dramatic escalation of hostilities yesterday, two Labor MPs publicly dissented from Labor's position.
- They don't extend to justices who have dissented from the principle.
- Alito, on the Circuit Court had dissented from the majority and said that Congress had the right to so act.
- On every matter on which he could have dissented from the Government in its formation, he has gone with the Government.
- What's the difference between dissenting by deciding and taking the law into your own hands?
1. 1.1 Separate from an established or orthodox church because of doctrinal disagreement.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Iranian historians were biased towards groups that dissented from mainstream Islam and rebelled against the Islamic caliphate.
  That is, we dissented from somebody else's religion, and we paid the price for it.
  Along the way, Fraser reminds us, various sects dissented and established parochial schools.
  Baptists dissented from a state religion that claimed the right to determine what should be believed and how belief should be practiced.
  There developed in Qumran a Jewish sect that dissented from Sadduceanism and was hostile to the Pharisians.
  Synonyms
  differ, demur, diverge

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin dissentire ‘differ in sentiment’.

单词	dissent
释义	Definition of dissent in English: dissent noun dɪˈsɛntdəˈsɛnt mass noun 1The holding or expression of opinions at variance with those commonly or officially held. 不同意 there was no dissent from this view 没有与此不同的观点。 Example sentencesExamples An ‘anti-national’ Press is not alone in its dissent from the orchestrated spectacle. He has just about put the lid on dissent from within the Cabinet. But in a move seen as an attempt to quell this dissent from the back benches, Mr Cullen announced the abolition of plans for the direct election of mayors. He pointed out that it was easy to exaggerate the importance of Australian expressions of dissent from Allied plans, and Curtin's messages. Protest, chant, yell, shout your dissent from the rooftops. To march is a symbolic act not only of dissent from the government's position but to remind everyone that a people is not - and can never be - the same as a regime. The move caused widespread discontent in the Conservative Party and open dissent from leading modernisers. Brown wrote the Committee for the Nation expressing his dissent from the President's gold purchasing program in late 1933. There is some dissent from this among the comments - particularly Carrie. This is the first sign of an Opposition shaping up to reflect current dissent from so many of current government policies. The policy has apparently generated little dissent from within the Scouts. One is composed of intellectuals, people who preach dissent from the values of the ‘core culture.’ When a state's appropriation imparts too generous a benefit to religion alone, the establishment clause should provide a pathway to dissent. Fair enough, but why did we hear so little dissent from within the movement? I have continually argued for France's right to express its dissent from the opinion of the international community. But this is exactly the model that China has chosen to take - with little in the way of dissent from the ‘international community’. Yet the organisation, with no dissent from the Executive or the Crown Office, continues to stand by its discredited experts. There have been some signs of dissent from Barnaby Joyce and Queensland Liberal Senator David Johnston about the states' rights implications of the plans. It is at delicate moments in world affairs, such as this, that expressions of widespread dissent from opinion-formers can become a real political force. These words provoked no murmurs of dissent from this largely Republican crowd. Synonyms disagreement, lack of agreement, difference of opinion, argument, dispute, demur disapproval, objection, protest, opposition, defiance, insubordination conflict, friction, strife arguing, quarrelling, wrangling, bickering 1.1 Refusal to accept the doctrines of an established or orthodox Church; nonconformity. 对国教（或东正教教义）不遵循 rural communities with a long tradition of Dissent Example sentencesExamples A state religious court evaluating nonconformity or dissent deserves whatever answers it receives. It seems to me that this approach to dissent has the potential to be pastorally disastrous. That kind of perspective teaches me the need to respect dissent, nonconformity, and liberty of conscience as priority Baptist values. They issue Tracts carrying forward a debate about Anglican identity: the Church of England would be Catholic but it would stand against Popery on the one hand and dissent on the other. Any dissent or questioning of the group's teachings is discouraged. A theology of dissent has become the new establishment. Church, democracy and dissent: Paul Rule reviews two books by Paul Collins. Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives. No thesis of theology escapes criticism, and no edict is exempt from conscientious dissent. Are you getting at the fact that perhaps what we see in religious practice is not so much dissent, active opposition, but a kind of muddling through? Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization. It called for a new crackdown on doctrinal dissent, and recommended a papal investigation of American seminaries, the subtext of which was to blame gays. I maintained that my dissent was not from core tenets of Catholic faith, but from noninfallible church teachings. Or in the face of dissent when his party had lost their way and run short of food the avid Bible student resorted to his Scriptures. The Inquisition's actions would be excessive today because we have the leisure to tolerate dissent with no threat to our survival - not as yet, at any rate. One perspective reflected a background of English / Welsh dissent and the other a Scots / Irish covenanter tradition. For all liberals, the stumbling block in Newman's work is his consistently held conviction that the act of faith allows no room at all for dissent or doubt. 1.2 (in sport) the offence of expressing disagreement with the referee's decision. （运动用语）不服从裁判 he was sent off for dissent 他因为不服从裁判而被罚下场。 Example sentencesExamples The referee is surrounded by a mass of home team players, three of whom are cautioned for dissent, and the goalkeeper is sent off violent conduct. On the next Lancaster defence one of Bury's players was sent out for dissent to the referee. Not even a week has passed since his reprieve and Ganguly has been penalised again, this time for showing dissent against an umpiring decision. Showing dissent at umpiring decisions can amount to violation of the conduct code for players. Rotherham did not help their cause when they had a player sent off for dissent after arguing the decision to award a short corner. 1.3US count noun 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. 〈美〉异议声明（法官在庭审案件中对其他法官作出的裁决有异议时所做的解释性声明） he wasted no time in cranking out nine majority opinions, as well as three dissents Example sentencesExamples The two-clerk era, saw an annual average of 107 opinions of the court, 78 dissents and 33 concurrences. He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench. Thus, over 2 strong dissents, the Court did not permit the misappropriation claim. She has written or joined eighty-seven dissents from court decisions she deemed insufficiently activist in scope and character. Now consider this dissent from Planned Parenthood vs. Casey by Antonin Scalia. That this is Justice White's position is clearly affirmed by Justice John Paul Stevens' comments on Justice White's dissent. In his biting dissent Justice Antonin Scalia charged that Justice Stevens' unusual approach was a result of judicial bias in favor of abortion. One suspects that their ultimate target was Justice Rehnquist's dissent in Jaffree, and that their goal was to repair the damage to Everson's foundation. Thus Justice Douglas' dissent was based on an unproven supposition. Simmons-Harris, was of course the most newsworthy aspect of the decision, but the dissents were no less revealing. verb dɪˈsɛntdəˈsɛnt [no object] 1Hold or express opinions that are at variance with those commonly or officially held. 不同意 two members dissented from the majority 有两个成员不同意大多数人的意见。 Example sentencesExamples People can disagree, differ and dissent, even within the ruling party, without this negatively affecting the stability of our country and the peace that we continue to enjoy. Some of them were actually aggressive, convinced that anyone who dissented from the view that their child was a genius must be motivated by malice. Only one Senator out of the hundred dissented from the passage of the Patriot Act, which is providing unprecedented powers for law enforcement bodies. Most participants dissented from time to time and said they did not want to go on, but the researcher would prod them to continue. Even before the dramatic escalation of hostilities yesterday, two Labor MPs publicly dissented from Labor's position. He tangled with other cardinals and disciplined church officials who dissented from official church policy. What's the difference between dissenting by deciding and taking the law into your own hands? However, some Democrats dissented from that conclusion. He can be unpredictable and even manage to dissent from established opinion, if only on the margin. Not one Supreme Court justice dissented from the Moyer opinion, which was drafted by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. No respondent dissented from the vocational view, but teachers rarely voiced it. Seven judges expressed a separate opinion, while two dissented from the majority. Alito, on the Circuit Court had dissented from the majority and said that Congress had the right to so act. The third judge, Lord Justice Neuberger, dissented from this, stating that he did not consider it conducive to a fair trial. On every matter on which he could have dissented from the Government in its formation, he has gone with the Government. For the right it is an article of faith that scientists are dogmatic atheists with the will and the power to crush anyone who dissents from orthodoxy. Only a fool likes to hear the sound of his own voice. We welcome dissenting opinions. They don't extend to justices who have dissented from the principle. When I dissented from the liberal line on race, the Texas papers depicted me as a racist. But a significant minority in the Conservative Party dissented from this view. 1.1 Disagree with the doctrine of an established or orthodox Church. 对国教（或东正教教义）不遵循 Example sentencesExamples That is, we dissented from somebody else's religion, and we paid the price for it. Baptists dissented from a state religion that claimed the right to determine what should be believed and how belief should be practiced. Along the way, Fraser reminds us, various sects dissented and established parochial schools. Iranian historians were biased towards groups that dissented from mainstream Islam and rebelled against the Islamic caliphate. There developed in Qumran a Jewish sect that dissented from Sadduceanism and was hostile to the Pharisians. Synonyms differ, demur, diverge disagree with, fail to agree with, express disagreement with, be at variance/odds with, argue with, take issue with decline/refuse to support, not ratify, protest against, object to, dispute, challenge, quibble over reject, repudiate, renounce, abjure Origin Late Middle English: from Latin dissentire 'differ in sentiment'. Definition of dissent in US English: dissent noundəˈsentdəˈsɛnt 1The expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held. 不同意 there was no dissent from this view 没有与此不同的观点。 Example sentencesExamples Yet the organisation, with no dissent from the Executive or the Crown Office, continues to stand by its discredited experts. Brown wrote the Committee for the Nation expressing his dissent from the President's gold purchasing program in late 1933. When a state's appropriation imparts too generous a benefit to religion alone, the establishment clause should provide a pathway to dissent. It is at delicate moments in world affairs, such as this, that expressions of widespread dissent from opinion-formers can become a real political force. He pointed out that it was easy to exaggerate the importance of Australian expressions of dissent from Allied plans, and Curtin's messages. He has just about put the lid on dissent from within the Cabinet. An ‘anti-national’ Press is not alone in its dissent from the orchestrated spectacle. But this is exactly the model that China has chosen to take - with little in the way of dissent from the ‘international community’. Fair enough, but why did we hear so little dissent from within the movement? This is the first sign of an Opposition shaping up to reflect current dissent from so many of current government policies. To march is a symbolic act not only of dissent from the government's position but to remind everyone that a people is not - and can never be - the same as a regime. But in a move seen as an attempt to quell this dissent from the back benches, Mr Cullen announced the abolition of plans for the direct election of mayors. There have been some signs of dissent from Barnaby Joyce and Queensland Liberal Senator David Johnston about the states' rights implications of the plans. The move caused widespread discontent in the Conservative Party and open dissent from leading modernisers. There is some dissent from this among the comments - particularly Carrie. I have continually argued for France's right to express its dissent from the opinion of the international community. These words provoked no murmurs of dissent from this largely Republican crowd. Protest, chant, yell, shout your dissent from the rooftops. The policy has apparently generated little dissent from within the Scouts. One is composed of intellectuals, people who preach dissent from the values of the ‘core culture.’ Synonyms disagreement, lack of agreement, difference of opinion, argument, dispute, demur 1.1 Refusal to accept the doctrines of an established or orthodox Church; nonconformity. 对国教（或东正教教义）不遵循 Example sentencesExamples The Inquisition's actions would be excessive today because we have the leisure to tolerate dissent with no threat to our survival - not as yet, at any rate. Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives. No thesis of theology escapes criticism, and no edict is exempt from conscientious dissent. One perspective reflected a background of English / Welsh dissent and the other a Scots / Irish covenanter tradition. For all liberals, the stumbling block in Newman's work is his consistently held conviction that the act of faith allows no room at all for dissent or doubt. Or in the face of dissent when his party had lost their way and run short of food the avid Bible student resorted to his Scriptures. Church, democracy and dissent: Paul Rule reviews two books by Paul Collins. That kind of perspective teaches me the need to respect dissent, nonconformity, and liberty of conscience as priority Baptist values. Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization. A state religious court evaluating nonconformity or dissent deserves whatever answers it receives. They issue Tracts carrying forward a debate about Anglican identity: the Church of England would be Catholic but it would stand against Popery on the one hand and dissent on the other. I maintained that my dissent was not from core tenets of Catholic faith, but from noninfallible church teachings. It seems to me that this approach to dissent has the potential to be pastorally disastrous. Any dissent or questioning of the group's teachings is discouraged. Are you getting at the fact that perhaps what we see in religious practice is not so much dissent, active opposition, but a kind of muddling through? A theology of dissent has become the new establishment. It called for a new crackdown on doctrinal dissent, and recommended a papal investigation of American seminaries, the subtext of which was to blame gays. verbdəˈsentdəˈsɛnt [no object] 1Hold or express opinions that are at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially expressed. 不同意 two members dissented from the majority 有两个成员不同意大多数人的意见。 Example sentencesExamples Not one Supreme Court justice dissented from the Moyer opinion, which was drafted by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He can be unpredictable and even manage to dissent from established opinion, if only on the margin. Most participants dissented from time to time and said they did not want to go on, but the researcher would prod them to continue. People can disagree, differ and dissent, even within the ruling party, without this negatively affecting the stability of our country and the peace that we continue to enjoy. No respondent dissented from the vocational view, but teachers rarely voiced it. Only a fool likes to hear the sound of his own voice. We welcome dissenting opinions. Seven judges expressed a separate opinion, while two dissented from the majority. When I dissented from the liberal line on race, the Texas papers depicted me as a racist. For the right it is an article of faith that scientists are dogmatic atheists with the will and the power to crush anyone who dissents from orthodoxy. But a significant minority in the Conservative Party dissented from this view. The third judge, Lord Justice Neuberger, dissented from this, stating that he did not consider it conducive to a fair trial. Only one Senator out of the hundred dissented from the passage of the Patriot Act, which is providing unprecedented powers for law enforcement bodies. However, some Democrats dissented from that conclusion. Some of them were actually aggressive, convinced that anyone who dissented from the view that their child was a genius must be motivated by malice. He tangled with other cardinals and disciplined church officials who dissented from official church policy. Even before the dramatic escalation of hostilities yesterday, two Labor MPs publicly dissented from Labor's position. They don't extend to justices who have dissented from the principle. Alito, on the Circuit Court had dissented from the majority and said that Congress had the right to so act. On every matter on which he could have dissented from the Government in its formation, he has gone with the Government. What's the difference between dissenting by deciding and taking the law into your own hands? 1.1 Separate from an established or orthodox church because of doctrinal disagreement. Example sentencesExamples Iranian historians were biased towards groups that dissented from mainstream Islam and rebelled against the Islamic caliphate. That is, we dissented from somebody else's religion, and we paid the price for it. Along the way, Fraser reminds us, various sects dissented and established parochial schools. Baptists dissented from a state religion that claimed the right to determine what should be believed and how belief should be practiced. There developed in Qumran a Jewish sect that dissented from Sadduceanism and was hostile to the Pharisians. Synonyms differ, demur, diverge Origin Late Middle English: from Latin dissentire ‘differ in sentiment’.
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