Word Meanings - DISSENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government. 3. To differ; to be of a contrary nature. Hooker. (more info) 1. To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from. The

Additional info about word: DISSENT

To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government. 3. To differ; to be of a contrary nature. Hooker. (more info) 1. To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from. The bill passed . . . without a dissenting voice. Hallam. Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSENT)

• Contradict
• Oppose
• dissent
• negative
• controvert
• deny
• disprove
• confute
• refute
• gainsay
• contravene
• Difference
• Separation
• destruction
• dissimilarity
• unlikeness
• disagreement
• dissonance
• discord
• contrariety
• distinction
• dissimilitude
• estrangement
• variety
• Schism
• Division
• separation
• disruption
• secession
• diversity
• sectarianism
• breach
• Secede
• Withdraw
• retire
• recede
• separate
• segregate

Related words: (words related to DISSENT)

• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• CONTRARIETY
  1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. 2. Something which is contrary to,
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• CONTRADICTORILY
  In a contradictory manner. Sharp.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• CONTRADICTION
  1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• DISSENTIVE
  Disagreeing; inconsistent. Feltham.
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• RETIRER
  One who retires.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is