SECT


Meaning of SECT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

different

Gainsborough had 3 banks, several schools, and places of worship for Anglicans, Catholics and 6 different dissenting sects .

One might almost say that each of the different sects corresponds to a different social group or class.

Their religious life is tolerant, pluralist, divided into different sects or denominations.

religious

Paramat stood by the doorway with the attitude of a tourist at the shrine of an exotic religious sect .

Behind the gate, however, is a religious sect that former members say indulges in polygamy and other questionable practices.

He believes Dinah has either been murdered or is the prisoner of a religious sect .

As these opportunities appeared, so at the same time the lines of religious party and sect hardened.

It must be stressed that the Zealots were not a religious sect or denomination.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a fundamentalist sect

A monk named Kashyapa is regarded as the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.

Islam has two main sects: the Sunnis and the Shias.

She is a member of a religious sect that was formed from various aspects of Asian religions.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All the others were from the sect hierarchy's lesser rank of Disciples.

He believes Dinah has either been murdered or is the prisoner of a religious sect .

Many Kharijite sects advocated anarchy as a solution; getting rid of the leader came to be an acceptable tactic.

My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right....

One classificatory device that has been used frequently draws distinctions between church, denomination, and sect and cult.

One might almost say that each of the different sects corresponds to a different social group or class.

Shinto sanctuaries came under the control of this new sect , known also as Dualist Shintoism.

This well-known story from Marco Polo's account dates from two hundred years after the sect had been crushed.

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