dissentism

See also: Dissentism

English

Etymology

From dissent +‎ -ism.

Noun

dissentism (uncountable)

1. (rare, nonstandard) The practice or act of dissent.
   • 1866, Matthew Arnold, Letter to his mother [Mary Penrose]:

     I like to think that the Star, in order to get the benefit of the irony on landlordism, has to digest the irony on dissentism.

   • 2008, Robert B. Heilman, The Ghost on the Ramparts and Other Essays in the Humanities, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 152:

     It is the humanities' contribution to the fraternity of mutations in which appear scientism, methodism, democratism, communitarianism, and dissentism.

   • 2021 October 31, Khalid Hussain Mir, “Abdul Rahman Bulbul Shah: The first preacher of Islam in Kashmir”, in Rising Kashmir‎^[1]:

     Rinchan Shah was the ruler of Kashmir at that time, who practiced Buddhism, while his wife, Kota Rani daughter of Ram Chandrina, was a follower of Hindu Dharma. The religious divergences between the two spouses always created the dissentism.

References

• “dissentism”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.