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- noun Plural form of
sectary .
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Examples
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The Persian hadjys, well known as sectaries of Aly, and revilers of Mohammed and his immediate followers, are not subjected to any particular inconveniences.
Travels in Arabia 2003
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In quarrels I have heard individuals among them publicly called sectaries and rowafedh, without their ever denying it.
Travels in Arabia 2003
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They have, on the contrary, steadily maintained that the sectaries were the persecutors, since the company had exclusive ownership of the soil, and acted in self-defence.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887
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One set of religious people of whom there are millions in Russia, the so - called sectaries, consider the existing social order as unjust and to be destroyed on the ground of the Gospel teaching taken in its true sense.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You Leo Tolstoy 1869
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The Persian hadjys, well known as sectaries of Aly, and revilers of Mohammed and his immediate followers, are not subjected to any particular inconveniences.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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In quarrels I have heard individuals among them publicly called sectaries and rowafedh, without their ever denying it.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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Were you a Jew, you would realize that there is a greater seriousness at the bottom of it than mere dissension of the sectaries or trouble-making for you and Rome.
Chapter 17 2010
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I kept none for myself all money was turned over to our sectaries.
ROY CARTER SPANN 2010
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Paulicians, that pity for their speculative errors, which modern times might think had been well purchased by the extent of the temporal services of these unfortunate sectaries.
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He with concern witnessed the sectaries daily springing up, but he never beheld those schisms where the minister of the parish was active and vigilant in his duty.
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