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dissident

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WOTD – 6 October 2016
 
Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), who became a prominent Soviet dissident and activist for nuclear disarmament, peace and human rights

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From Latin dissidēns, dissidentis, present participle of dissidēre (“to sit apart; to disagree”), from dis- (“asunder, apart, in two”) + sedēre (“to sit”).

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dissident (comparative more dissident, superlative most dissident)

  1. In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.
    Near-synonym: dissonant
  2. (Northern Ireland) Continuing violent actions despite a ceasefire (especially the Good Friday Agreement).
    • 1998 October 12, Human Rights Watch Staff, Human Rights Watch World Report 1999, Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, page 304:
      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.
    • 2011 July 15, Max Taylor, P.M. Currie, Dissident Irish Republicanism, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 102:
      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.
    • 2022 April 28, Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse, Media, and Conflict: Examining War and Resolution in the News, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 189:
      The post-conflict era in Northern Ireland has been characterized by fluctuating levels of support for dissident republicanism and their “prolonged campaign”

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dissident (plural dissidents)

  1. 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.
    Synonym: dissenter
    • 1895 June 15, “Claude Monet”, in The Speaker, volume 11, London: Mather & Crowther, →OCLC, page 658:
      I once more find myself a dissident, and a dissident in a very small minority.
    • 1989, Stephen F. Cohen, Katrina vanden Heuvel, quoting Len Karpinsky, “The Autobiography of a ‘Half-Dissident’”, in Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 280:
      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.
    • 2013, John Horgan, “Here to Stay?”, in Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's Dissident Terrorists, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
      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."
  2. (Christianity) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
    Synonym: dissenter
    1. (Christianity, specifically, historical) Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.
      • 1733 May, “Foreign Advices in May, 1733”, in “Sylvanus Urban” [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman's Magazine: or Monthly Intelligencer, volume III, number 24, London: Printed, and sold at St John's Gate, by F. Jeffries in Ludgate-street, and most booksellers, →OCLC, page 272:
        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.
      • 1767, Reflections on the Affairs of the Dissidents in Poland, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 7:
        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.
      • 1768 March, “VIII. Original Pieces, concerning the Present Situation of the Protestants and Greeks in Poland. Wherein are Contained, The Explanation of Their Rights Published by the Court of Russia: The Articles of the Peace of Oliva: The Confederacies of the Dissidents, and the Declarations of the Protestant Courts in Their Favour: The Speeches of the Bishop of Cracovia and the Pope's Nuncio: The Constitutions of the Diet of 1766: And the Articles of the College of the Bishops Allowed to the Dissidents, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the Originals. 8vo. Pr[ice] 2s. 6d. Baker.”, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, volume XXV, London: Printed for A. Hamilton, in Falcon-Court, Fleet-Street, →OCLC, pages 206–207:
        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.
      • 1863, R[obert] G[ordon] Latham, “Poland from Sigismund II. to the Partition”, in The Nationalities of Europe. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 13, Waterloo Place, S.W., →OCLC, page 53:
        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.
      • 2013, Brendan [Peter] Simms, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN:
        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.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dissidentem.

Adjective

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dissident m or f (masculine and feminine plural dissidents)

  1. dissenting, dissident

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dissident m or f by sense (plural dissidents)

  1. dissident
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Etymology

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Borrowed from French dissident, from Latin dissidens, present participle of dissidere (“to sit apart, to disagree”); dis- + sedere (“to sit”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˌdɪ.siˈdɛnt/
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  • Hyphenation: dis‧si‧dent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

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dissident m or f (plural dissidenten, diminutive dissidentje n)

  1. dissident
    Synonym: andersdenkende
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French

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Borrowed from Latin dissidentem.

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dissident (feminine dissidente, masculine plural dissidents, feminine plural dissidentes)

  1. dissenting, dissident

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dissident m (plural dissidents, feminine dissidente)

  1. (religion) dissenter
  2. dissident, someone who has dissenting opinion
  3. dissident, an opponent to a political regime

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dissidens.

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  • IPA(key): /dɪsiˈdɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: dis‧si‧dent
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dissident (strong nominative masculine singular dissidenter, comparative dissidenter, superlative am dissidentesten)

  1. dissident

Declension

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Positive forms of dissident
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist dissident sie ist dissident es ist dissident sie sind dissident
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative dissidenter dissidente dissidentes dissidente
genitive dissidenten dissidenter dissidenten dissidenter
dative dissidentem dissidenter dissidentem dissidenten
accusative dissidenten dissidente dissidentes dissidente
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der dissidente die dissidente das dissidente die dissidenten
genitive des dissidenten der dissidenten des dissidenten der dissidenten
dative dem dissidenten der dissidenten dem dissidenten den dissidenten
accusative den dissidenten die dissidente das dissidente die dissidenten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein dissidenter eine dissidente ein dissidentes (keine) dissidenten
genitive eines dissidenten einer dissidenten eines dissidenten (keiner) dissidenten
dative einem dissidenten einer dissidenten einem dissidenten (keinen) dissidenten
accusative einen dissidenten eine dissidente ein dissidentes (keine) dissidenten
Comparative forms of dissident
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist dissidenter sie ist dissidenter es ist dissidenter sie sind dissidenter
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative dissidenterer dissidentere dissidenteres dissidentere
genitive dissidenteren dissidenterer dissidenteren dissidenterer
dative dissidenterem dissidenterer dissidenterem dissidenteren
accusative dissidenteren dissidentere dissidenteres dissidentere
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der dissidentere die dissidentere das dissidentere die dissidenteren
genitive des dissidenteren der dissidenteren des dissidenteren der dissidenteren
dative dem dissidenteren der dissidenteren dem dissidenteren den dissidenteren
accusative den dissidenteren die dissidentere das dissidentere die dissidenteren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein dissidenterer eine dissidentere ein dissidenteres (keine) dissidenteren
genitive eines dissidenteren einer dissidenteren eines dissidenteren (keiner) dissidenteren
dative einem dissidenteren einer dissidenteren einem dissidenteren (keinen) dissidenteren
accusative einen dissidenteren eine dissidentere ein dissidenteres (keine) dissidenteren
Superlative forms of dissident
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist am dissidentesten sie ist am dissidentesten es ist am dissidentesten sie sind am dissidentesten
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative dissidentester dissidenteste dissidentestes dissidenteste
genitive dissidentesten dissidentester dissidentesten dissidentester
dative dissidentestem dissidentester dissidentestem dissidentesten
accusative dissidentesten dissidenteste dissidentestes dissidenteste
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der dissidenteste die dissidenteste das dissidenteste die dissidentesten
genitive des dissidentesten der dissidentesten des dissidentesten der dissidentesten
dative dem dissidentesten der dissidentesten dem dissidentesten den dissidentesten
accusative den dissidentesten die dissidenteste das dissidenteste die dissidentesten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein dissidentester eine dissidenteste ein dissidentestes (keine) dissidentesten
genitive eines dissidentesten einer dissidentesten eines dissidentesten (keiner) dissidentesten
dative einem dissidentesten einer dissidentesten einem dissidentesten (keinen) dissidentesten
accusative einen dissidentesten eine dissidenteste ein dissidentestes (keine) dissidentesten

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  • “dissident” in Duden online
  • “dissident” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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dissident

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of dissideō

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Borrowed from Latin dissidēns.

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dissident m or f (plural dissidents)

  1. dissident
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