dissident

In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.

• Near-synonym: dissonant

Continuing violent actions despite a ceasefire (especially the Good Friday Agreement).Northern-Ireland

• This tragic event, coupled with a police operation on the Drumcree site July 15-17, 1998 - which revealed a small cache of explosives and arms and resulted in arrests of dissident loyalists effectively ended the standoff.
• Of the 'dissident' groups which have emerged, the most important has been the RIRA [Real IRA]. While vulnerable to splits, it has contained the deadliest capacity.

A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.

• I once more find myself a dissident, and a dissident in a very small minority.
• It is largely the story of a man who fell from being a potential leader of the Soviet Communist Party in the early 1960s to being an outcast by the mid-1970s – a dissident in the eyes of officialdom, a "half-dissident" in his own eyes.

A member of a paramilitary that has continued actions after the Good Friday Agreement or other ceasefire.Northern-Ireland

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.; Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.historicalspecifically

• A Socinian was a Dissident, and a member of the Greek Church was a Dissident; and these Dissidents agreed to act together. Even a liberal Romanist might be called a Dissident.
• The rest, about half a million Russian Orthodox and about the same number of Protestants, were known as ‘dissidents’; the huge Jewish community defied classification.