ADJECTIVE
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not restricted to one sect or school or party
religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere
a wide and unsectarian interest in religion
nonsectarian colleges
How To Use unsectarian In A Sentence
- Her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her an unsectarian broad-church outlook.
- It was a relatively unsectarian occasion.
- Like Updike, Wilbur thinks of himself as a Protestant Christian, although the moral nerve of his poems is wide and unsectarian.
- Committedly unsectarian, she joined the Fabians, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Independent Labour Party.
- Sunday school lessons for the blind that were put in Braille, and this required skill because, since Braille is so expensive to produce, anything in the way of a religious lesson had to be not only undenominational but unsectarian [unknown] So, of course, Oral History Interview with Broadus Mitchell, August 14 and 15, 1977. Interview B-0024. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- That should not distract us from realising how unsectarian Scottish society has actually become.
- He was consistently in favour of an unsectarian, national educational system.
- In time most of the evangelical Christians in the city promised to relieve the missionaries of the expense if they would build an unsectarian chapel more worthy of the object.
- His eventual election as lord provost in 1843, in the changed religious atmosphere immediately surrounding the Disruption of that year, was seen as a triumph for unsectarian principles.
- The purpose of the association was, first and foremost, to train young men to become "useful citizens" in an unsectarian, undenominational setting.