noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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different
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Gainsborough had 3 banks, several schools, and places of worship for Anglicans, Catholics and 6 different dissenting sects .
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One might almost say that each of the different sects corresponds to a different social group or class.
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Their religious life is tolerant, pluralist, divided into different sects or denominations.
religious
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Paramat stood by the doorway with the attitude of a tourist at the shrine of an exotic religious sect .
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Behind the gate, however, is a religious sect that former members say indulges in polygamy and other questionable practices.
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He believes Dinah has either been murdered or is the prisoner of a religious sect .
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As these opportunities appeared, so at the same time the lines of religious party and sect hardened.
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It must be stressed that the Zealots were not a religious sect or denomination.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a fundamentalist sect
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A monk named Kashyapa is regarded as the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.
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Islam has two main sects: the Sunnis and the Shias.
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She is a member of a religious sect that was formed from various aspects of Asian religions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the others were from the sect hierarchy's lesser rank of Disciples.
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He believes Dinah has either been murdered or is the prisoner of a religious sect .
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Many Kharijite sects advocated anarchy as a solution; getting rid of the leader came to be an acceptable tactic.
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My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right....
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One classificatory device that has been used frequently draws distinctions between church, denomination, and sect and cult.
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One might almost say that each of the different sects corresponds to a different social group or class.
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Shinto sanctuaries came under the control of this new sect , known also as Dualist Shintoism.
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This well-known story from Marco Polo's account dates from two hundred years after the sect had been crushed.