Dissenters synonyms

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contestants
One that contests or disputes something, such as an election or a will.
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protesters
One who protests, either singly or in a public display of group feeling.
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dissidents
(Ecclesiastical) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
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separatists
Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatics.
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sectaries
A Dissenter; Nonconformist
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rebels
A Confederate soldier.
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nonconformists
A British Protestant who does not belong to the Anglican Church; Dissenter
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heretics
A person who professes a heresy; esp., a church member who holds beliefs opposed to church dogma
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skeptics (related)
A member of any of the ancient Greek philosophical schools that denied the possibility of any certain knowledge
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religions (related)
The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe:
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Dissenters Sentence Examples

  • In 1673 he opposed the Indulgence, supported the Test Act, and spoke against the proposal for giving relief to the dissenters.

  • Indeed it is estimated that there are more than 12,000,000 Dissenters in Great Russia alone.

  • Hawker described the bulk of his parishioners as a "mixed multitude of smugglers, wreckers and dissenters of various hues."

  • For many years after this they were liable to imprisonment for non-payment of tithes, and, together with other Dissenters, they remained under various civil disabilities, the gradual removal of which is part of the general history of England.

  • It is coming to be recognized that the growth of religious toleration owed much to the early Quakers who, with the exception of a few Baptists at the first, stood almost alone among Dissenters in holding their public meetings openly and regularly.

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