dissentism

noun

Etymology

From dissent + -ism.

  1. derived from dissentiō — “to differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel
  2. inherited from dissenten
  3. suffixed as dissentism — “dissent + -ism

Definitions

  1. The practice or act of dissent.

    • I like to think that the Star, in order to get the benefit of the irony on landlordism, has to digest the irony on dissentism.
    • It is the humanities' contribution to the fraternity of mutations in which appear scientism, methodism, democratism, communitarianism, and dissentism.
  2. The beliefs or practices of the English Dissenters.

    • The natural man will be carried away, and will flit about with the wind of every false doctrine. Protestantism may go over to Puseyism; Dissentism may go over to Congregationalism; and all may merge into Catholicism; but what of all that?
    • Is it a second Church-of-England establishment, created out of the taxes, in order to strengthen the patronage of the executive power, according to its imaginary requirements, from the healthy growth of Protestant dissentism?
    • The present study examines an aspect of Green's professional and political life that has been noted but never adequately explained by previous studies — namely, his philo-Dissentism.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA