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  • noun Plural form of sectarist.

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Examples

  • All the English sectarists accepted from William III. and his Parliament the toleration and indulgence which they had refused when offered by King James.

    Letter IV-On the Quakers Voltaire 1909

  • All the sectarists in England saw the snare that was laid for them, but did not give into it; they never failing to unite when the Romish religion, their common enemy, is to be opposed.

    Letter IV-On the Quakers Voltaire 1909

  • For instance, the Sheeahs send all the Sunnees to hell because in their ablutions they wash from the elbow to the finger tips; the Sunnees return the compliment to their rival sectarists because they wash from the finger tips to the elbow.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • Lukewarmness in devotion was what his soul abhorred, and he looked upon sectarists of all sorts as enemies, who, though different in persuasion, joined together in attempts for the destruction of the holy catholic church; and to thwart their measures, he was unwearied in his persuasions, wheresoever he went, and wheresoever he preached, to excite his audience to the most ardent and holy affections for the cause of God and his church.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old: for which he was highly applauded for many excellent and sarcastical expressions against the sectarists, late in power.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • May it suffice then that I account for the birth of this great man in the year 1633, when the artifices of wicked and designing sectarists against the established government in church and state, that broke out at last into the grand rebellion, made it necessary that so bright an assertor of both, as he proved afterwards, should arise.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • Galatians, as the former is between our church and the sectarists.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • By degrees they got on the politics of the day; and though then they unclasped their hands, and there occurred between them such expressions as, "Nay, my dear brother," and, "there I must needs differ," and, "on this point I crave leave to think;" yet a hue and cry against the Independents and other sectarists being started, they followed like brethren in full hollo, and it was hard to guess which was most forward.

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

  • All the English sectarists accepted from William III, and his Parliament the toleration and indulgence which they had refused when offered by King

    Letters on England 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

  • Those who can still use their brains (the left one, and especially the RIGHT one) knows that they'll be assumed publicly as sectarists, as in the US, all people with an opened mind will be treated as terrorists (i.e. 9/11 and the 9/11 truth mouvement).

    Infowars 2009

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