sectarismn.
/ˈsɛktərɪz(ə)m/ Now rare.
1. The principles, spirit, or practice characteristic of sectaries; sectarianism.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun]
separatism1628
sectarisma1643
sectarianism1817
denominationalism1855
sectism1864
separationism1875
denominationality1892
a1643 J. Spelman Case of Affaires (1644) 30 Especially now when Schisme and Sectarisme do with such authoritie invade us.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. i. xxix. 240 These Checks were given to Sectarism and Popery.
1822 E. Nathan Langreath III. 195 The charitably religious sentiments of Mrs. Dalton, untainted by the narrow trammels of sectarism.
1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iv. 125 Sectarism contradicts the first rudiment of Christian combination.
2. A variety of ‘sectarism’; a sectarian body.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun]
churcheOE
kirkc1175
spousea1200
lawa1225
lorea1225
religionc1325
faithc1384
sectc1386
seta1387
leara1400
hirselc1480
professiona1513
congregation1526
communion1553
schism1555
segregation1563
sex1583
hortus conclususa1631
confessiona1641
dispensation1643
sectary1651
churchship1675
cult1679
persuasion1732
denomination1746–7
connection1753
covenant1818
sectarism1821
organized religion1843
1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writ. (1892) I. 52 In process of time however, other sectarisms were introduced, chiefly of the Presbyterian family.
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