sectarian
11sectarian — sec|tar|i|an [ sek teriən ] adjective 1. ) caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups: sectarian violence/killing/hatred etc.: Sectarian violence poses a real threat to the stability of the country. 2. ) taking one side… …
12sectarian — UK [sekˈteərɪən] / US [sekˈterɪən] adjective a) caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups sectarian violence/killing/hatred etc: Sectarian violence poses a real threat to the stability of the country. b) involving or… …
13sectarian — adjective 1 sectarian violence/conflict/murder etc violence etc that is connected with the strong feelings between people of different religious groups 2 especially AmE supporting a particular religious group and its beliefs: a sectarian journal… …
14sectarian — I. adjective Date: 1649 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian 2. limited in character or scope ; parochial • sectarianism noun II. noun Date: 1819 1. an adherent of a sect …
15sectarian — adj. Sectarian is used with these nouns: ↑conflict, ↑divide, ↑division, ↑interest, ↑murder, ↑politics, ↑strife, ↑violence …
16sectarian — adjective denoting, concerning, or deriving from a sect or sects. ↘carried out on the grounds of membership of a sect, denomination, or other group: sectarian killings. noun a member or follower of a sect. Derivatives sectarianism noun… …
17sectarian — adjective a sectarian society of white supremacists Syn: factional, separatist, partisan, parti pris; doctrinaire, dogmatic, extreme, fanatical, rigid, inflexible, bigoted, hidebound, narrow minded Ant: tolerant, liberal …
18sectarian — /sɛkˈtɛəriən/ (say sek tairreeuhn) adjective 1. of or relating to a sect, or its members. 2. confined or devoted to a particular religious denomination, especially narrowly or excessively: *wrote sketches for the Roving Reds, a radical and rather …
19sectarian — Pertaining to some one of the various religious sects. People ex rel. Vollmar v Stanley, 81 Colo 276, 255 P 610. Those religious doctrines are sectarian which are the doctrines of one religious sect and are not shared in common with other… …
20Sectarian violence — or sectarian strife is violence inspired by sectarianism, that is, between different sects of one particular mode of thought, not necessarily religious (e.g. conflicts between the nationalists and communists in China in the early 20th century are …
