to dissent
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6.8
- verb
- /dɪˈsɛnt/
- Formal
:
disentir
- Justices Stevens and Blackmun wrote opinions concurring in part, concurring in the judgment in part, and dissenting in part.
- dissent from the holding
They also give you just more freedom to to dissent without the coercive peace.
- They also give you just more freedom to to dissent without the coercive peace.
- That's a different category than how we deal with people who dissent.
- Another thing that we now would dissent from Gibbon about is the efficiency of the Roman Empire.
- You need to encourage different ideas, and you need not to be threatened when people dissent, because that encourages people to speak up.
- And there's always people who dissent who disagree because I guess the the counter argument is that the less regulations, the better, the more free market, right?
- Another judge was kind of in between and then George Gregory Katzis, who was a Trump appointed judge, outright dissent it.
- And there was only two dissenting about the idea that climate change was real and it was happening and it was caused by humans.
Examples
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Justice Gorsuch dissents and he says you got it wrong.
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The committee allowed all members to dissent if they disagreed with the proposed changes.
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You need to encourage different ideas, and you need not to be threatened when people dissent, because that encourages people to speak up.
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Finally, I do dissent, and that's what the article was very much about.
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How do you deal with the attitude of the dissenting students?
Academic text (1991) -
Only two or three members dissented from the final vote of the thirty-four-member council.
Academic text (1990) -
However, some theorists have dissented from this view.
Academic text (2017) -
A dissenting psychiatrist disagreed with you, doctor.
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With only Harris dissenting, the board voted 4-1 to divide access rights by days of the week.
Academic text (2008) -
I pitched the need for cutbacks at the meeting today, but a dissenting opinion was offered by Carlton Whitfield.
Synonyms
∞
1.7
To say you do not believe something is true
∞
1.0
Have a different opinion from someone
839
1.9
Refuse to accept someone or something
104
2.7
To have a different opinion from someone
45
6.3
Tell someone you do not agree with a statement or idea
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3.6
To show in public that you strongly disagree with something
Antonyms
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
dissent = dis + sent
Although the word historically contains the prefix 'dis-', the remaining root is not an independent English base word, so learners who know English morphemes are unlikely to infer the meaning reliably.
Etymology
The verb dissent comes from the Latin parts dis- 'not' and sentire 'to feel', so it literally means 'to not feel the same'. So to dissent is to disagree with an official or majority opinion, often in a clear or public way.