He argued that although "anger" was used to advertise these emergent talents, a better word for their "new spirit" would be "dissentience", a dissent from "majority sentiments and opinions". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It is not quite satisfactory to hold the same sentiments, in every small particular, with a man who clips his hair down to a quarter of an inch, and eats haricots with his fingers; but it was impossible to find any subject on which he could be roused to dissentience. From Wordnik.com. [Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland] Reference
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