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dissenter

/dih-sen-ter/US // dɪˈsɛn tər //UK // (dɪˈsɛntə) //

异议者,异见者,持不同意见者,反对者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who dissents, as from an established church, political party, or majority opinion.
    • : an English Protestant who dissents from the Church of England.

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Examples

  • One of the most common arguments raised by dissenters is that vaccine mandates infringe upon unvaccinated people’s human rights and civil liberties.

  • The short opinion, with Justice Clarence Thomas as the lone dissenter, was the court’s latest attempt to clarify the free-speech rights of the nation’s 50 million public school students, and a rare win for student speech.

  • Suddenly, Lieber went from perennial dissenter to board president.

  • Roberts, the other dissenter in the Ramos case, was more difficult to read.

  • Kagan, although a dissenter in Ramos, suggested this might be another.

  • I think you should give the dissenter the respect to respond to the points that he makes.

  • Among the committee members, Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On was the sole dissenter.

  • By expressing my doubts, I am clearly a dissenter in this persistent force for progress.

  • McCain thinks of himself as a maverick, an unorthodox thinker, a dissenter.

  • I wanted to see a live Dissenter, I believe, and yet I wished it were over.

  • New-Rochelle was then a parish, and its rector, of course, considered the French preacher a dissenter.

  • The four lieutenants stepped out of the way, so that the single dissenter might stand alone.

  • The squire was interested in the land and the church; the merchant thought more of commerce and was apt to be a dissenter.

  • I heard an earnest middle-aged dissenter preach a sermon on that text a few days ago.