sectarian

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The New Englander is too strong for the sectarian, and the hereditary animosity softens to reverence, as the sincere man, looking back, conjures up the image of a sincerity as pure, though more stern, than his own.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect.
  2. adjective Adhering or confined to the dogmatic limits of a sect or denomination; partisan.
  3. adjective Narrow-minded; parochial.
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  • There have been few, if any, incidents of my whole life that I have more frequently thought of, or with greater pleasure and delight, than of those large, non-sectarian, and, as it were, family gatherings and simple services. —  Personal Experience of a Physician
  • But Agassiz was no sectarian, and held no other creed than a belief in the Creator. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
  • TIZA claims to be non-sectarian, as Minnesota law requires charters to be. —  The Corner
  • Scepticism and partisanship may sneer at them as "sectarian," but religion and conscience will hold them as supreme. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
  • She describes him as a dangerous sectarian, a veritable sorcerer, and the evil genius of one of her own relatives. —  Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
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  1. from sectary (Middle Latin sectarius) + -an.
 

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