Dissidents is a general term for dissenters in various countries, but has been specially used of the Polish non-Catholics or dissidentes—Lutherans, Calvinists, Greeks, and Armenians (not, however, including Anabaptists or Socinians).
Dissidents
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 14
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