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sec·tar·i·an

(sĕk-târ′ē-ən)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect.

2. Adhering or confined to the dogmatic limits of a sect or denomination; partisan.

3. Narrow-minded; parochial.

1. A member of a sect.

2. One characterized by bigoted adherence to a factional viewpoint.

sec·tar′i·an·ism n.

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sectarian

(sɛkˈtɛərɪən)

adj

1. of, belonging or relating to, or characteristic of sects or sectaries

2. adhering to a particular sect, faction, or doctrine

3. narrow-minded, esp as a result of rigid adherence to a particular sect

a member of a sect or faction, esp one who is bigoted in his adherence to its doctrines or in his intolerance towards other sects, etc

secˈtarianˌism n

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sec•tar•i•an

(sɛkˈtɛər i ən)

adj.

1. of or pertaining to sectaries or sects.

2. narrowly confined or devoted to a particular sect.

3. narrowly confined or limited in interest, purpose, etc.

4. a member of a sect.

5. a bigoted or narrow-minded person.

[1640–50]

sec•tar′i•an•ly, adv.

sectarian

Belonging to or involving a particular sect, denomination, or faction, especially when seen as narrowminded or dogmatic.

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Noun	1.	sectarian - a member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect" sectarist, sectary bigot - a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
Adj.	1.	sectarian - of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects; "sectarian differences"
	2.	sectarian - belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind"; "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook; "sectarian squabbles in psychology" nonsectarian, unsectarian - not restricted to one sect or school or party; "religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere"; "nonsectarian colleges"; "a wide and unsectarian interest in religion"- Bertrand Russell

sectarian

adjective

1. narrow-minded, partisan, fanatic, fanatical, extremist, limited, exclusive, rigid, parochial, factional, bigoted, dogmatic, insular, doctrinaire, hidebound, clannish, cliquish sectarian religious groups
narrow-minded liberal, tolerant, open-minded, catholic, free-thinking, broad-minded, non-sectarian, unprejudiced, unbigoted

noun

1. bigot, extremist, partisan, disciple, fanatic, adherent, zealot, true believer, dogmatist He remains a sectarian.

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sectarian

noun

A person who dissents from the doctrine of an established church:

dissenter, dissident, heretic, nonconformist, schismatic, sectary, separationist, separatist.

Translations

أحَد أفْراد الطائِفَهطائِفيطائِفي، مَذْهَبي

sektářský-kasektář

sekterisksektmedlem

Sektenanhäger

sectaire

szektariánusszektás

maîur í sértrúarsöfnuîisem lÿtur aî sértrúarsöfnuîisértrúarsafnaîar-

settario

kult-sekt-sekterisk sektmedlem

sektársektársky

hiziple ilgili gruba aitmezhebe aitmezhep üyesi

偏狭的宗派引起的宗派的属于宗派的人

sectarian

[sekˈtɛərɪən]

A. ADJ → sectario

B. N → sectario/a m/f

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sectarian

[sɛkˈtɛəriən] adj → sectaire

sectarian

adj → sektiererisch; differences → konfessionell; sectarian loyalties → konfessionelles Zugehörigkeitsgefühl; sectarian violence → Gewalttätigkeiten pl → mit konfessionellem Hintergrund

n → Sektierer(in) m(f)

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sectarian

[sɛkˈtɛərɪən] adj → settario/a

sect

(sekt) noun

a group of people within a larger, especially religious, group, having views different from those of the rest of the group.

secˈtarian adjective

1. concerned with, especially the narrow interests of, a sect or sects. sectarian loyalties.

2. caused by membership of a sect. a sectarian murder.

noun

a member of a sect.

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Now Nietzsche disagreed entirely with Renan's view, that Christ was "le grand maitre en ironie"; in Aphorism 31 of "The Antichrist", he says that he (Nietzsche) always purged his picture of the Humble Nazarene of all those bitter and spiteful outbursts which, in view of the struggle the first Christians went through, may very well have been added to the original character by Apologists and Sectarians who, at that time, could ill afford to consider nice psychological points, seeing that what they needed, above all, was a wrangling and abusive deity.

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They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the shore of the North American Continent; contiguously situated, but chartered by adventurers of characters variously diversified, including sectarians, religious and political, of all the classes which for the two preceding centuries had agitated and divided the people of the British islands--and with them were intermingled the descendants of Hollanders, Swedes, Germans, and French fugitives from the persecution of the revoker of the Edict of Nantes.

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At that distant day, there was a dreary isolation in the civilized Christian society of these realms for families that had dropped below their original level, unless they belonged to a sectarian church, which gets some warmth of brotherhood by walling in the sacred fire.

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They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.