Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Disagreement, as of opinion or belief; dissent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Difference or separation in opinion; disagreement; dissent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
dissident ;dissent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun disagreement; especially disagreement with the government
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Examples
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They do not know what the word dissidence means, they would not know the meaning of this word. [laughter] Then, they built up their campaign around this idea and of course, first it was the imperialist press and then, as can be imagined, the reactionary and rightist press against socialism, against communism, against the Cuban revolution.
MAY DAY RALLY 1980
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Summers’ cognitive dissidence is too much cognitive dissonance for Obama fans to deal with so they’re just trying to not remember it.
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My object has throughout been this: I have seen so much of what may be called the dissidence of religious thought and religious organization among those of my own generation at the Universities, and the unhappy results of such a separation, that I felt bound to contribute what I could to a settlement of this division, existing so much more in word than in fact — a point which you helped me very greatly to grasp.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Searching for the Arabic word for "dissidence" a few years back, Egyptian writer Nawal el-Saadawi was stumped.
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The sentiments on which such a theory rested indeed for its main support, the power of historical tradition, the association of "dissidence" with danger to the State, the strong English instinct of order, the as strong English dislike of
History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860
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Abdallah Abu Rahma has been in detention, torn away from his wife, three children and the young students he could be teaching, because Israel has apparently decided that civic activism, nonviolent protest or any kind of dissidence in Palestine is illegal.
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Note that all my sources for what follows come from US military sources, not the peace movement. • 25\% of US soldiers participated in "dissidence," (expressing opposition to the war), and 25\% participated in "disobedience" (refusing orders, going AWOL, sabotage, attacking officers). 37\% of all soldiers participated in one of the two, and 32\% did so more than once.
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Meanwhile, the centre said, a large contingent of People's Armed Police (PAP) has been deployed in Drango County to crush any kind of dissidence and protest.
Phayul Latest News 2009
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Let's just hope this "clear abuse case" won't serve as a foundation for some new federal legislation that'll broadly hit anything resembling "dissidence" from "undesirables" because it could end up hurting a lot of innocent people.
Akismet Blog 2009
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Note that all my sources for what follows come from US military sources, not the peace movement. • 25\% of US soldiers participated in "dissidence," (expressing opposition to the war), and 25\% participated in "disobedience" (refusing orders, going AWOL, sabotage, attacking officers). 37\% of all soldiers participated in one of the two, and 32\% did so more than once.
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