Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of dissension; given to dissension; contentious; quarrelsome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious.
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- adjective Marked by
dissensions ;contentious - adjective
dissenting
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- adjective dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
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Examples
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For they proved the city great and not small, and rendered it harmonious and not dissentious, and erected the walls instead of pulling them down.
The Orations of Lysias 440? BC-380 BC Lysias
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Eloquence, will, from these steppes, likelie enough presume, by like pride, to mount hier, to the misliking of greater matters: that is either in Religion, to haue a dissentious head, or in the common wealth, to haue a factious hart: as I knew one
The Scholemaster 1570
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Eloquence, will, from these steppes, likelie enough presume, by like pride, to mount hier, to the misliking of greater matters: that is either in Religion, to haue a dissentious head, or in the common wealth, to haue a factious hart: as I knew one
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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512: That fill his eares with such dissentious Rumors.
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What, again, shall be said of the two following, where Coriolanus snaps off his fierce scorn of the multitude? ” “What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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