Sects

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Definitions and meanings of "Sects"

What do we mean by sects?

An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

A group following a specific ideal or a leader.

A cutting; a scion.

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The word "sects" in example sentences

I, for my part, after a pretty long experience now, have seen so little of that said bitter rivalry between the Nonconformist sects, _as sects_, that to me it is all but non-existent. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

It is impermissible and arbitrary for the government to confer benefits on groups it classifies as "religions" while denying benefits and enacting oppressive measures against groups it classifies as "sects". ❋ Joseph K. Grieboski (2011)

Anyway, only certain sects of Buddhism have many gods. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Personally I dont believe in sects and I fully agree that this shia sunni tag has cost us a lot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If this is who he looks up to spiritually it is obvious religion and relationships with certain sects of religion can make you do very questionable things (ahhem mr bush). ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are just certain sects he is not reaching that she can bring into the voting booth … …. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The lack of class analysis, and the easy substitution of a story about feuding sects, is part of the newly formed conventional wisdom. ❋ Unknown (2007)

False Christendom, divided into very many sects, is truly Babylon, that is, confusion. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Man is taught more than the beasts of the earth, and made wiser that the fowls of heaven, and yet is so degenerated that he may learn wisdom from the meanest in sects and be shamed by them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The One Nation Party, a political party that organizes rallies against religious groups that it terms sects, claims that organizations like the Jehovah's Witnesses, which decline military service, "aim to destroy Armenia, hiding behind the name of religious organizations." ❋ Unknown (2009)

He admitted that he bases his views of such religious groups - which he dubs "sects" - on a ❋ Unknown (2009)

But an absurd situation has been created in which a coalition of hassidic sects is opposing Jerusalem’s only haredi mayoral candidate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Moreover, the 1996 Annual Report by the Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom to the United Nations Human Rights Commission provides the Rapporteur's opinion on the broad scope of the term religion and the need for equal treatment of all religions, including so called "sects." ❋ Joseph K. Grieboski (2011)

While it remains unlikely that the Mandaeans represent a group descended from followers of John the Baptist, it is quite plausible that they have connections to the wider phenomenon of baptizing sects in that era, as well as to the Gnosticism of the period. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Moreover, the church in Latin America has been under siege of some extent in recent years with the growth of the so-called sects that are these very missionary, Evangelical and Pentecostal movements. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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