noun
definition
Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
Examples of dissenter in a Sentence
He later became a dissenter, throwing over his original intention of going to Oxford University.
The lone dissenter to leave the world's fastest growing.
After the death of his father, who was a rigid Dissenter, his mother, left in poverty, lived with some Roman Catholic families.
Even after this certain High Churchmen held that a Lutheran was a" dissenter,"and that the prince should be asked to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles.
Strictly a " dissenter " is one who dissents from the church as an " established " body, or who dissents from the establishment of a state church, while conforming or not to its forms, ceremonies or practice.
Throughout his whole career Binney was a vigorous opponent of the state church principle, but those who simply classified him as a narrow-minded political dissenter did him injustice.