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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A dissenter can be seen as an outsider or non-conformist; its possible eggcorn, decenter, means to move from an established centre or focus, or render eccentric:
... interested in money from entitlement programs. The real threat is the decenters from within – our own citzens (and illeagls) living within our boarders. ...
www.nysun.com/comments/34217
Look at the footage of him naming and shaming the decenters from within his parliament, they turned into gibbering sycophants in seconds realising they …
www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost. … 69559…43
The Labour party were unelectable in the 1980s and into the start of the 1990s when John Smith took over; decenters from within the ranks were severly …
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Very decent. There are lots of decenters out there. How about a connection to “decent”, as in righteous?
Alternatively, there are scads of “descenters” on the web who would bring their opponents down a notch. Or are they just down to earth?
Genealogy
Last week I located images of the original handwritten petition of Descenters from the church of England from Nov 1, 1776 that Micajah Via and others signed.
(http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/t … 1162569615)
Catholic forum
but when I see popes kissing the qoran and visiting mosques I start to wonder if the descenters are actually descenting or is it the other way around, are the descenters correct? then the “catholic faithful” would be the real descenters.
(http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=302772)
That’s not descenting, as in perfumery and ferret surgery, I hope.
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Mint, Peter. A huge number of web hits for this one—an eggcorn with a life.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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