DISSIDENT

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia).

2.
n.

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidencI. Taylor.