dissidence

[ dis-i-duhns ]

noun

Origin of dissidence

1650–60; <Latin dissidentia, equivalent to dissid- (see dissident) + -entia-ence

He did so despite the noise and disruption from those few board members dedicated to bringing political disruption and dissidence into our public educational system.
Va. school board names new chair who called for burning books | Zachary Jarrell | January 14, 2022 | Washington Blade
There’s still dissidence and there’s still problems and there’s uneven recovery.
How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt? (Ep. 478) | Stephen J. Dubner | October 14, 2021 | Freakonomics
Saudi spies have secretly repatriated Saudi college students whom they accused of dissidence or Islamic extremism in the United States.
Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg | July 22, 2021 | ProPublica
But why would a group of hackers who pride themselves on dissidence develop such a conscience?
Anonymous’s Next Move | Winston Ross | April 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Most of them are still in prison, and even the most timid signs of dissidence are relentlessly snuffed out.
Bernard-Henri Lévy on Mansour Osanloo and Regime Change in Iran | Bernard-Henri Lévy | March 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

There have, however, been a few dissenters: and I venture to join myself to them in the very dissidence of their dissent.
The English Novel | George Saintsbury
So much is said nowadays about the dissidence of the spiritual and intellectual worlds.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge | Arthur Christopher Benson
That is how St. Paul describes the dissidence of dissent, as it was known to him by grievous experience.
The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles | Alfred Plummer
He regarded heterodoxy as a power in itself, and took his inacquaintance with doctrines for a creative dissidence.
Impressions of Theophrastus Such | George Eliot
This is the just and honourable ground of that dissidence of feeling on the part of Talleyrand that culminated in desertion.
Talleyrand | Joseph McCabe

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