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- noun Plural form of
sect .
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Examples
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I, for my part, after a pretty long experience now, have seen so little of that said bitter rivalry between the Nonconformist sects, _as sects_, that to me it is all but non-existent.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Anyway, only certain sects of Buddhism have many gods.
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It is impermissible and arbitrary for the government to confer benefits on groups it classifies as "religions" while denying benefits and enacting oppressive measures against groups it classifies as "sects".
Joseph K. Grieboski: Israeli Ministry Targeting So-Called 'Sects' and 'Cults' Joseph K. Grieboski 2011
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Personally I dont believe in sects and I fully agree that this shia sunni tag has cost us a lot.
Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Prachinar, The Valley Of Death 2009
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It is impermissible and arbitrary for the government to confer benefits on groups it classifies as "religions" while denying benefits and enacting oppressive measures against groups it classifies as "sects".
Joseph K. Grieboski: Israeli Ministry Targeting So-Called 'Sects' and 'Cults' Joseph K. Grieboski 2011
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If this is who he looks up to spiritually it is obvious religion and relationships with certain sects of religion can make you do very questionable things (ahhem mr bush).
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There are just certain sects he is not reaching that she can bring into the voting booth … ….
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The lack of class analysis, and the easy substitution of a story about feuding sects, is part of the newly formed conventional wisdom.
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False Christendom, divided into very many sects, is truly Babylon, that is, confusion.
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Man is taught more than the beasts of the earth, and made wiser that the fowls of heaven, and yet is so degenerated that he may learn wisdom from the meanest in sects and be shamed by them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
ambyellen commented on the word sects
denominations are the sects!
July 23, 2009