Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being sectarian; adherence to a separate religious sect or party; especially, excessive partizan or denominational zeal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Rigid adherence to a particular
sect ,party ordenomination .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination
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Examples
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The term sectarianism originated with the Protestant Reformation starting in the 1500s.
Chip Berlet: Abstaining from Bad Sects Chip Berlet 2010
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The term sectarianism originated with the Protestant Reformation starting in the 1500s.
Chip Berlet: Abstaining from Bad Sects Chip Berlet 2010
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The term sectarianism originated with the Protestant Reformation starting in the 1500s.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Chip Berlet 2010
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Then, for that vice of the mind which I call sectarianism, -- not in the religious sense of the word, but little, narrow prejudices, that make you hate your next-door neighbor because he has his eggs roasted when you have yours boiled; and gossipping and prying into people's affairs, and backbiting, and thinking heaven and earth are coming together if some broom touch a cobweb that you have let grow over the window-sill of your brains what like a large and generous, mildly aperient (I beg your pardon, my dear) course of history!
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Then, for that vice of the mind which I call sectarianism, -- not in the religious sense of the word, but little, narrow prejudices, that make you hate your next-door neighbor because he has his eggs roasted when you have yours boiled; and gossipping and prying into people's affairs, and backbiting, and thinking heaven and earth are coming together if some broom touch a cobweb that you have let grow over the window-sill of your brains what like a large and generous, mildly aperient (I beg your pardon, my dear) course of history!
The Caxtons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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First of all congratulations on doing such a great job of planting the seeds of awareness in the hearts of so many that sectarianism is self defeating.
Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Prachinar, The Valley Of Death 2009
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The question has to do with the problem we know as sectarianism that often occurs between comrades of the leftwing parties.
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ALLAWI: Unless the government decides to embark on a course of national unity or national reconciliation, on getting away from sectarianism, which is crushing the Iraqi people, it's very difficult to rejoin the government.
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Al-Sumaria Iraqi satellite TV station yesterday, al-Maliki called sectarianism "the root of Iraq problems."
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The French president says he rejects the idea of sectarianism and self-confinement.
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