sect

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Is one's pride in his sect, his zeal for the propagation of it, his jealousy of any influence that tends to impair its greatness or hinder its progress, likely to be reduced, or is it rather likely to be exalted, by the consciousness that the sect is a very great sect, standing alone for important principles?

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  1. noun A group of people forming a distinct unit within a larger group by virtue of certain refinements or distinctions of belief or practice.
  2. noun A religious body, especially one that has separated from a larger denomination.
  3. noun A faction united by common interests or beliefs.

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  • I have woven it and it is firm: The ingredients are a dead heresiologist, a compass, an eighteenth-century sect, a Greek word, a dagger, the diamonds of a paint shop. —  EQMM,August2008
  • The Shaker does not count women out because the founder of the sect was a woman, but he is a complete celibate and depends on Gentiles to populate the earth. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14
  • This sect is a direct offshoot of the Latter Rain cult (also known as Joel's Army or Manifest Sons of God). —  Molly'sBlog
  • (Daniel 12: 2) \ "" But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets; having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Participation in the occult ceremonies of the sect was a {43} chief means of salvation. —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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creed ·  faction ·  cult ·  religion ·  tradition ·  denomination ·  philosophy ·  philosopher ·  institution ·  teaching ·  deity ·  theology

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sect:   sects ·  Sect
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English secte, from Old French, from Latin secta, course, school of thought, from feminine past participle of sequī, to follow; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin sectum, a part cut (in plural secta, parts of the body operated on), neuter of sectus, cut, past participle of secare, cut: see secant, section. Cf. sect, with which sect has been confused.
 

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