ADJECTIVE
- disagreeing, especially with a majority
- (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
How To Use dissentient In A Sentence
- At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own. Mrs. Dalloway
- The dissentients agreed in this construction to the extent that they determined that the position of the barrister was solely governed by section 10.
- Within 20 days of the approval notice a dissentient shareholder must give a written notice of dissent to the constituent company demanding payment of the fair value of his shares.
- But it is in the madrassah, not at home, that Anu hears a compelling dissentient voice.
- There were no loyal, dissentient voices: none, at least, that could be relied upon to stay firm. IN LOVE AND WAR
- Views of these kinds, with their roots mainly in clinical observation and practice, held sway with many variations and some dissentients well into the twentieth century.
- Chief Justice Dixon was a dissentient in Livingston.
- There was only one dissentient -- Rogers, a burly faceman from the Silver Stream. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
- Within 20 days of the vote approving the merger or consolidation, the constituent company must give written notice of the approval to all dissentient shareholders who served a notice of objection.
- It must think it really did win the last state election, even though the Libs polled more votes and gained more seats than Labor, which came to office only through backroom deals with two or three Liberal dissentients.