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Sectary   Listen
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Sectary  n.  (pl. sectaries)  A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter. "I never knew that time in England when men of truest religion were not counted sectaries."






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"Sectary" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christian, because he turns up his eyes and drawls out his words, and, when asked to say grace, offers a prayer of twenty minutes' duration. But, again, it does not follow that he is not a Christian, though he may do all these things. The bitter sectary, who distinctly says that a humble, pious man, just dead, has "gone to hell," because he died in the bosom of the National Church, however abhorrent that sectary may be in some respects, may be, in the main, within the Good Shepherd's fold, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various



Words linked to "Sectary" :   sectarian, sectarist, bigot



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