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Literary notes about dissidence (AI summary)

Literary usage of the term dissidence often conveys a multifaceted sense of rebellious separation from dominant norms, whether in religious, political, or social contexts. It conveys a spirit of active opposition, as seen in the portrayal of individuals like Celio Secondo Curione, whose overt break with Church orthodoxy marked him for persecution [1], and in the depiction of heterodoxy as a source of creative divergence [2]. The term not only reflects open challenges to established authority—as in accounts of organized dissent within religious institutions [3]—but also suggests more subtle, internal currents of discontent and the hidden underbelly of conformity, where a cloak of outward compliance might mask inner rebellion [4]. Across these narratives, dissidence is presented both as a philosophical stance and as a potent force that destabilizes rigid societal structures, underscoring its enduring role as a symbol of transformative critique [5][6][7].
  1. This was Celio Secondo Curione, whose acts of overt dissidence from the Church had even then made him an object of persecution.
    — from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
  2. He regarded heterodoxy as a power in itself, and took his inacquaintance with doctrines for a creative dissidence.
    — from Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot
  3. T HE Church had not always been an organization which considered its highest duty to be the forcible suppression of dissidence at any cost.
    — from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
  4. The land was filled with those whose external conformity might be but the cloak for secret dissidence.
    — from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea
  5. And on Earth all is confused shadow and conflict; dissidence, tumultuous gloom and glare; and Destiny as yet shakes her doubtful urn.
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  6. While his father slept Joseph remembered that Peter, John and James stood by the Master throughout the dissidence.
    — from The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story by George Moore
  7. But the inconvenience of such dissidence from the general body of Western Christendom was soon felt.
    — from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

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