DISSENTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissenting mean? 

• DISSENTING (adjective)
  The adjective DISSENTING has 1 sense:

1. disagreeing, especially with a majority

  Familiarity information: DISSENTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSENTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disagreeing, especially with a majority

Synonyms:

dissentient; dissenting; dissident

Similar:

negative (expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial)

 Context examples 

And she would neither believe her own watch, nor her brother's, nor the servant's; she would believe no assurance of it founded on reason or reality, till Morland produced his watch, and ascertained the fact; to have doubted a moment longer then would have been equally inconceivable, incredible, and impossible; and she could only protest, over and over again, that no two hours and a half had ever gone off so swiftly before, as Catherine was called on to confirm; Catherine could not tell a falsehood even to please Isabella; but the latter was spared the misery of her friend's dissenting voice, by not waiting for her answer.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was strictly enjoined, that the project of starving you by degrees should be kept a secret; but the sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books; none dissenting, except Bolgolam the admiral, who, being a creature of the empress, was perpetually instigated by her majesty to insist upon your death, she having borne perpetual malice against you, on account of that infamous and illegal method you took to extinguish the fire in her apartment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)