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dissenter

 noun
     
dis‧sent‧er [countable]
1 a person or organization that disagrees with an official decision or accepted opinion:
Political dissenters were imprisoned.
2 also Dissenter someone in the past who did not accept the beliefs of the established Protestant church in Western Europe [= non-conformist]
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