Synonym: differ, disagree, take exception. Antonym: assent, consent. Similar words: assent, essential, essentially, essentiality, essence, sentiment, dismiss, passenger. Meaning: [dɪ'sent] 
n. 1. (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority 2. a difference of opinion 3. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent. v. 1. withhold assent 2. express opposition through action or words 3. be of different opinions.
n. 1. (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority 2. a difference of opinion 3. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent. v. 1. withhold assent 2. express opposition through action or words 3. be of different opinions. 
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1. In those days, religious dissent was not tolerated.
2. These voices of dissent grew louder and louder.
3. He would brook no serious dissent.
4. The regime ruthlessly suppresses all dissent.
5. I dissent altogether from such an unwise idea.
6. Few historians would dissent from this view.
7. Political dissent is not tolerated.
8. I wish to dissent .
9. The present government is even less tolerant of dissent.
10. There are many ways of expressing dissent.
11. The teacher laughed her dissent.
12. Voices of dissent began to rise against the bomb.
13. Voices of dissent began to rise against the established authority in the 1950s and 1960s.
14. Any political system refusing to allow dissent becomes a tyranny.
15. There were murmurs of both assent and dissent from the crowd.
16. In the early 1960s,(sentencedict.com) the voices of dissent began to rise.
17. His dissent from his family's religious beliefs caused a lot of ill-feeling.
18. Stability only exists in the country because dissent has been suppressed.
19. The regime tried to silence dissent with a programme of mass murder.
20. Anyone wishing to dissent from the motion should now raise their hand.
21. The voices of dissent were effectively smothered.
22. Religious dissent is, indeed, one source of civil unrest.
23. Two jurors signified their dissent.
24. Third, the student plays a role of dissent.
25. Bodie ignored the sounds of dissent.
26. We do not dissent from that proposition.
27. He is the toughest military ruler yet and has responded harshly to any dissent.
28. When the time came to approve the proposal, there were one or two voices of dissent.
29. The President was ruthless in dealing with any hint of internal political dissent.
30. Voter abstention is seen as the only real form of dissent in elections.
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