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UK
/sɛktˈeəɹiən/
]
[ US /sɛkˈtɛɹiən/ ]
[ US /sɛkˈtɛɹiən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
belonging to or characteristic of a sect
sectarian squabbles in psychology
the negations of sectarian ideology
a sectarian mind -
of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects
sectarian differences
NOUN
-
a member of a sect
most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect
How To Use sectarian In A Sentence
- He was an undogmatic, unsectarian bridge-builder.
- There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
- U.K. and other foreign troops, and by other Iraqis in sectarian violence, Peter Bagnall, who analyzed the documents for Iraq Body Count, said in an interview. Website Claims 15,000 Unreported Iraq War Deaths
- To me he is false, a bluffer, a hypocrite, a sectarian, a coward and an opportunist.
- In such ways are the seeds of social division and sectarianism planted in young children and there's no reason to think it's much different now.
- The concept of ‘sectarian balance’ is equally elastic and carries a variety of meanings.
- sectarian differences
- The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters.
- Stripped of any political content, today's conflicts in Northern Ireland are now what many wrongly assumed them to be during the Troubles: base, atavistic, sectarian clashes.
- When I was a missionary in Africa (placed by a non-sectarian group working at a Catholic mission hospital), 70 percent of rural health care was done by missionaries.
