All 4 Uses of
dissent
in
Anna Karenina
- She said nothing, and shook her cropped head in dissent.
Part 4 *dissent = disagreement
- Anna noticed this sigh, indicating dissent, and she went on.†
Part 6
- For a long while she could hardly believe that their dissension had arisen from a conversation so inoffensive, of so little moment to either.†
Part 7
- Fortunately for him, at this period so difficult for him from the failure of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American alliance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritualism, were definitely replaced in public interest by the Slavonic question, which had hitherto rather languidly interested society, and Sergey Ivanovitch, who had been one of the first to raise this subject, threw himself into it heart and soul.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(dissent) to disagree; or disagreement or conflict -- typically between people who cooperate, and often with official or majority beliefseditor's notes: A Supreme Court dissenting opinion is a written opinion that represents the beliefs of one or more justices who disagreed with the majority.