Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sectarianism.
- noun A sect or sectarian party.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sectarianism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
sectarianism
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Examples
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But I did think for a while that it was great to see the bands and boys line up with their families there to see them off, but the sectarism was a shock.
But what's going to happen to Wales? Glyn Davies 2008
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There is sectarism in Scotland, a deep undercurrent of hatred between Protestants and Catholics, which I did find shocking.
But what's going to happen to Wales? Glyn Davies 2008
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There is no place for apathy, disengagement and even less for partiality and sectarism.
Zenit doing Vatican PR to contain Muslim controversy Suzanne 2006
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Therefore, the Cubans view the situation in Latin America without sectarism today.
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I know my profession to the greatest part of the world is sectarism, as Christianity; amongst those who profess the name of Christ, to the greatest number I am a sectary, because a Protestant;
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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All sectarism false and mischievous -- the regenerated, throughout the world, members of one body, and the HEAD Christ Jesus.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856
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All sectarism false and mischievous -- the regenerated, throughout the world, members of one body, and the HEAD Christ Jesus.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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All sectarism false and mischievous -- the regenerated, throughout the world, members of one body, and the HEAD Christ Jesus.
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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We make a sectarism of our Christian system, even as the Jews did of the Hebrew, though ours was designed to break down all such narrow bounds; so that I should not wonder if some one said to me, -- Are you preaching the Christian religion when you thus speak of nature and society? '
Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838
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Because, to religious quarrels there is no end, since the prejudices of infancy and education almost unavoidably exclude impartial reasoning, and besides, the vanity of the champions becomes committed by the very publicity of the contest, never to give up a first assertion, whence result a spirit of sectarism and faction.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788
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