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A '''dissenter''' (from the Latin ''dissentire'', "to disagree") is one who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|title=Dissenter|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Dissenter|work=1911 Encyclopædia Britannica|volume=Volume 8|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref> In the social and religious history of [[England]] and [[Wales]], and, by extension, [[Ireland]], however, it refers particularly to a member of a religious body who has, for one reason or another, separated from the [[
Originally, the term included English and Welsh [[
The term has also been applied to those bodies who dissent from the Presbyterian [[Church of Scotland]], which is the national church of Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.covenanter.org/RefPres/shortaccount.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-09-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813021129/http://covenanter.org/RefPres/shortaccount.htm |archivedate=2015-08-13 |df= }}</ref> In this connotation, the terms "dissenter" and "dissenting", which had acquired a somewhat contemptuous flavor, have tended since the middle of the 18th century to be replaced by "[[nonconformist]]", a term which did not originally imply secession, but only refusal to conform in certain particulars (for example the wearing of the [[surplice]]), with the authorized usages of the Established Church.<ref name=OxDictChristChurch/>
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