dissenter

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DOPPER A dissenter from the Dutch Reformed Church, but generally applied to Dutchmen in South Africa.

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  1. noun One who dissents: political dissenters.
  2. noun One who refuses to accept the doctrines or usages of an established or a national church, especially a Protestant who dissents from the Church of England.

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  • I don't mean to be a dissenter, and I'm certainly NOT taking up for our "Dear Leader", but we don't have the means to effectively intervene in this revolution without getting ourselves into another war / conflict. —  Tammy Bruce
  • I keep coming back here, because conversation at other Catholic-Protestant discussion blogs tends to get venomously anti-Catholic [with] ad hominem attacks on anyone who doesn't agree with the blogmaster and his pool of apparatchiks, whether the dissenter is Catholic OR Protestant. —  Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
  • One is that dissension like this in the locker room helps no one, even if the dissenter is a future Hall of Famer. —  Arrowhead Pride
  • One of the characteristics that makes Murray such an appealing, and credible, dissenter is his ability to reveal his own faults and foibles. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • A lone dissenter -- a software consultant and expert on risk management -- weighed in from Indiana with a two-page letter to warn the commission that the move was a grave mistake. —  The Swamp
 

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/dɪˈsɛntər/
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