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sect::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | religious order, religious sect |
| Type of | faith, religion, organized religion |
| Has types | order, quakers, religious society of friends, saktism, shakers, shaktism, shia, shiah, shiah islam, shivaism, shua, shuha shinto, sisterhood, sivaism, society of friends, zurvanism, albigenses, amish sect, brethren, cathari, cathars, hare krishna, haredi, high anglican church, high church, international society for krishna consciousness, iskcon, jainism, karaites, kokka, kokka shinto, monastic order, abecedarian, sunni, sunni islam, taoism, united society of believers in christ's second appearing, vaishnavism, vaisnavism, vaudois, waldenses |
| Derivation | sectarian |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | faction |
| Type of | ingroup, clique, camp, inner circle, coterie, pack |
| Has types | old guard, pro-life faction, right, right wing, splinter group, left, left wing, pro-choice faction |
Examples of sect
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The targets are mostly Christians and an Islamic minority sect known as Ahmedis.
From the kentucky.com
The sect attracted a ready following from the region's many poor and unemployed.
From the nytimes.com
Majors and entire campuses are seen as being dominated by one sect or the other.
From the newsweek.com
The Ahmadi sect is, Ahmed acknowledged, treated horribly in his native Pakistan.
From the dispatch.com
The virulence of the campaign against the Falun Gong sect certainly suggests so.
From the economist.com
China banned the Falun Gong, a religious sect, and detained some of its leaders.
From the economist.com
Additional here one can find hints about the founding history of Steiner's sect.
From the allconsidering.com
The Vadakalai sect of Sri Vaishnavism associate themselves with Vedanta Desikan.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Nine other sect members convicted earlier also have until Thursday to pay fines.
From the courier-journal.com
- A subdivision of a larger religious group
- Faction: a dissenting clique
- A sect is a group with distinctive religious, political or philosophical beliefs. Although in past it was mostly used to refer to religious groups, it has since expanded and in modern culture can refer to any organization that breaks away from a larger one to follow a different set of rules and ...
- Sect is an ancient astrological concept in which the seven traditional "planets" (including the Sun, the Moon and the five starry planets) are assigned to two different categories: diurnal or nocturnal sect.
- Sect was a Vancouver, Canada industrial trance band, comprising Michael Victory, Jason McEvoy and Bruce Young, who released an album on Third Mind Records in 1994 (engineered by Front Line Assembly's Chris Petersen) and were represented on a handful of Dossier compilations from 1993-1995.
- Planescape is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by Zeb Cook. The Planescape setting was published in 1994. ...
- In the role-playing games and books based on the World of Darkness setting, by White Wolf Game Studio, a sect is a large organization of vampires with a leadership, rules and goals, that (at least in theory) trascend clan divisions.
- The Devil's Daughter also known as The Sect (Italian title: La Setta) is a 1991 Italian horror film co-written and produced by Dario Argento and directed by Michele Soavi. The film stars Kelly Curtis and Herbert Lom.
- A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs
