Definition of Religious sect

1. Noun. A subdivision of a larger religious group.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Sect

religious naturalist
religious naturalists
religious offering
religious order
religious orders
religious orientation
religious outcast
religious person
religious philosophies
religious pluralism
religious residence
religious right
religious rite
religious ritual
religious school
religious sect (current term)
religious service
religious services
religious song
religious text
religious toleration
religious trance
religious writing
religiousism
religiously
religiousness
religiousnesses
relik
reliks
reline

Literary usage of Religious sect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"That certain of tbe officers of said religious sect, ... and certain public preachers and teachers of said religious sect, wbo are in good standing, ..."

2. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"Finally, the barrier of religious sect has been erected again and again to insure ... It is difficult to see how any religious sect would have a tenet so ..."

3. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"Finally, the barrier of religious sect has been erected again and again to insure ... It is difficult to see how any religious sect would have a tenet so ..."

4. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"Finally, the barrier of religious sect has been erected again and again to insure ... It is difficult to see how any religious sect would have a tenet so ..."

5. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"And no person, or any one particular religious sect or denomination, shall ever be compelled to pay toward the support of the teacher or teachers of another ..."

6. Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict by Samuel Joseph May (1869)
"... were not, as a religious sect, much more friendly than others to the immediate emancipation of the enslaved without expatriation. ..."

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