dissenter

American  

[dih-sen-ter] / dɪˈsɛn tər /

noun

1. a person who dissents, as from an established church, political party, or majority opinion.

2. (sometimes initial capital letter) an English Protestant who dissents from the Church of England.

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Dissenter British  

/ dɪˈsɛntə /

noun

1. Christianity a Nonconformist or a person who refuses to conform to the established church

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Etymology

Origin of dissenter

First recorded in 1630–40; dissent + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the lone dissenter, frames Colorado’s law as prohibiting merely “a dangerous therapy modality that, incidentally, involves provider speech.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Miran was the only dissenter to the Fed’s decision to not change interest rates last week.

From MarketWatch

In the south and Midlands of England, Defoe had built an information network among religious dissenters and monitored popular sentiment on important constitutional questions.

From The Wall Street Journal

Leaders backed their vision of stability and security with a high-tech surveillance state that silenced dissenters and imprisoned extremists, ensuring Dubai remained largely untouched by terrorism.

From The Wall Street Journal

So much so that we have names for the type: maverick, individualist, iconoclast, dissenter, rebel, freethinker.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• protester
• skeptic