dissident
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Latin dissidēns, present participle of dissideō (“to sit apart; to disagree”), from dis- (“asunder, apart, in two”) + sedeō (“to sit”).
Inflected forms:
form: more dissident
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dissident
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dissidents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: dissonant
Verilye yf all thynges that euel and vitiouſs maners haue caused to ſeme inconueniente and noughte ſhould be refuſed, as thinges vnmete and reprochefull, then we muſt among Chriſten people wynke at the moſte parte of al thoſe thinges, whych Chriſt taught vs, and ſo ſtreitly forbad them to be winked at, yat thoſe thinges alſo whiche he whiſpered in ye eares of his diſciples he commaunded to be proclaimed in open houſes. And yet ye moſt parte of them is more diſſident from the maners of the worlde nowe a dayes, then my communication was.
On flattening either the higher or lower reed separately, by partially pushing in either one of the pulls, dissident beats instantly arose, which would be made to disappear by partially pushing in the other reed.
In this chapter we look at the question of convergence in corporate governance by evaluating dissident proxy proposals in Canada. […] Dissident proxy initiatives are a direct challenge to corporate management and the board. They contain assertions of filers' views of what constitutes legitimate modes of conduct for the corporation, and can be seen as legitimacy contests between filers and corporate management (Bates and Hennessy, 2010). Dissident, or unsolicited, proposals are published along with those management is required to file annually, […]
The US State Department has removed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the acronym the FARC, from its terrorism blacklist, and listed two dissident groups led by former FARC militants.
gloss: Continuing violent actions despite a ceasefire (especially the Good Friday Agreement).
pos: adj
tags: Northern-Ireland
examples: This tragic event, coupled with a police operation on the Drumcree site July 15-17, 1998 - which revealed a small cache of explosives and arms and resulted in arrests of dissident loyalists effectively ended the standoff.
Of the 'dissident' groups which have emerged, the most important has been the RIRA [Real IRA]. While vulnerable to splits, it has contained the deadliest capacity.
The post-conflict era in Northern Ireland has been characterized by fluctuating levels of support for dissident republicanism and their “prolonged campaign”
gloss: A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
pos: noun
examples: I once more find myself a dissident, and a dissident in a very small minority.
It is largely the story of a man who fell from being a potential leader of the Soviet Communist Party in the early 1960s to being an outcast by the mid-1970s – a dissident in the eyes of officialdom, a "half-dissident" in his own eyes.
Before [Martyn] Frampton published his book Legion of the Rearguard, an exhaustive examination of the dissidents, he highlighted sections of it released in a report by the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King's College, London, entitled "The Return of the Militants."
Other prominent Chinese dissidents and activists on the platform reported a plunge in follower counts, too. The panic also spread to YouTube, an important source of income for many exiled dissidents, including Li.
gloss: A member of a paramilitary that has continued actions after the Good Friday Agreement or other ceasefire.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-Ireland
gloss: One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
pos: noun
gloss: One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
pos: noun
tags: historical
specifically
examples: From Warſaw, May 25. That the Dyet of Convocation had held its laſt Seſſion on the 22d, and then agreed to and ſign'd a general Confederacy in good Order, having firſt Sworn not to Elect a Foreigner as above. The Day of Election was fixt for the 25th of Aug. But a Proteſt was enter'd by the Diſſidents, who had been excluded.
The Article which enjoins Peace among the Diſſidents was ſigned by all the Catholics then present, and ſo are alſo the continual Repetitions of it in all the Pacta Conventa, and in the ſame Terms, to the Death of the late King; whereas the Confederacies of 1717 and 1733 are not signed by the Diſſidents, who were expelled from thence by Force.
Theſe Pieces are introduced by a very ſenſible preface, explaining the hardſhips and injuſtice which have been inflicted upon the Diſſidents of Poland. We there ſee that the Diſſidents (by whom are meant the proteſtants and the Greeks) had their privileges eſtablished by the fundamental laws paſſed in 1572; and that theſe rights were confirmed by the treaty of Oliva in 1660, which was guarantied by the principal powers of Europe.
A Socinian was a Dissident, and a member of the Greek Church was a Dissident; and these Dissidents agreed to act together. Even a liberal Romanist might be called a Dissident.
The rest, about half a million Russian Orthodox and about the same number of Protestants, were known as ‘dissidents’; the huge Jewish community defied classification.
Derived words: antidissident
cyberdissident
dissidently
dissident right
nondissident
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разко́лник
roman: razkólnik
lang: Catalan
word: dissident
lang: Finnish
word: dissidentti
lang: German
word: Andersdenkender
lang: German
word: Andersdenkende
lang: German
word: Andersgläubiger
lang: German
word: Andersgläubige
lang: German
word: Dissenter
lang: German
word: Dissenterin
lang: Macedonian
word: ра́сколник
roman: ráskolnik
lang: Portuguese
word: dissidente
lang: Russian
word: раско́льник
roman: raskólʹnik
lang: Russian
word: раско́льница
roman: raskólʹnica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ра́ско̄лнӣк
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ráskōlnīk