All 3 Uses of
dissent
in
Paradise Lost
- Thou to me thy thoughts Wast wont, I mine to thee was wont to impart; Both waking we were one; how then can now Thy sleep dissent?†
Book 5
- …things could, without end, Have raised incessant armies to defeat Thy folly; or with solitary hand Reaching beyond all limit, at one blow, Unaided, could have finished thee, and whelmed Thy legions under darkness: But thou seest All are not of thy train; there be, who faith Prefer, and piety to God, though then To thee not visible, when I alone Seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent From all: My sect thou seest; now learn too late How few sometimes may know, when thousands err.†
Book 6
- Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent,
Book 9 *dissent = disagreement
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.