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Definition of Religious sect
1. Noun. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
Specialized synonyms: Sisterhood, Albigenses, Cathari, Cathars, High Anglican Church, High Church, Abecedarian, Amish Sect, Karaites, Shia, Shiah, Shiah Islam, Sunni, Sunni Islam, Shivaism, Sivaism, Saktism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism, Vaisnavism, Haredi, Hare Krishna, International Society For Krishna Consciousness, Iskcon, Jainism, Taoism, Kokka, Kokka Shinto, Shua, Shuha Shinto, Brethren, Monastic Order, Order, Quakers, Religious Society Of Friends, Society Of Friends, Shakers, United Society Of Believers In Christ's Second Appearing, Vaudois, Waldenses, Zurvanism
Generic synonyms: Faith, Organized Religion, Religion
Terms within: Convent
Derivative terms: Sectarian, Sectarian
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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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