dissentient

English

Etymology

From the Latin dissentient-, dissentiēns (“dissenting”).

Noun

dissentient (plural dissentients)

  1. A dissenter.
    • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
      The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

Adjective

dissentient (comparative more dissentient, superlative most dissentient)

  1. Dissenting; of a different opinion.
    • 1914, Saki, ‘The Story-teller’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 354:
      A dissentient opinion came from the aunt.

Latin

Verb

dissentient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of dissentiō
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