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单词 sectarian
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Definition of sectarian in English:

sectarian

adjective sɛkˈtɛːrɪənˌsɛkˈtɛriən
  • 1Denoting or concerning a sect or sects.

    the city's traditional sectarian divide
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And like any church, Adventism of course has its sectarian movements and offshoots.
    • This movement transcended religious and sectarian divisions and was determined to end the US-led occupation.
    • There is no room for petty insularity and sectarian nonsense - the Scots must see themselves as nimble enough to change and take on the world's best.
    • The truth is that the Orange Order can no longer parade in a nakedly sectarian and triumphalist fashion.
    • The truth is that Northern Ireland is a state which nurtures sectarian divide and rule.
    • But, after the earliest period, sectarian denominations became less and less important.
    • We can point, randomly, to instances that fuelled the fire of sectarian hatred.
    • Today those closest to our violent past seem to dominate the political landscape and many remain entranced by sectarian concerns.
    • Socialist politics are the only way to break down sectarian divisions.
    • Occasionally, sectarian concerns discouraged both Protestants and Catholics from attending branches.
    • Well first of all I don't think of religion at all in sectarian terms.
    • They have been forced to hire devotees of sectarian Orthodoxy, who inevitably influence the religious orientation of their students.
    • In northern Iraq, sectarian tensions are also escalating in the wake of the referendum.
    • The demonstration spanned the city's traditional sectarian divide, with marchers coming from every area.
    • One way to avoid any kind of sectarian essentializing leading to religious fanaticism is to read these texts in comparative and inclusive ways.
    • Sadr's decision will also exacerbate sectarian tensions between the Sunni and Shiite elite.
    • With a separatist impulse, fundamentalism turned inward; but the sectarian subculture that coalesced was resourceful and vibrant.
    • And the peace process itself entrenches the sectarian division between Protestant and Catholic.
    • But it has been pursued with the same sectarian, thuggish, and ultimately self-defeating spirit.
    • At the Agreement's heart was a Stormont Assembly that institutionalised the sectarian divide.
    1. 1.1 (of an action) carried out on the grounds of membership of a sect, denomination, or other group.
      sectarian killings
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Random sectarian killings slowed and more IRA men were bumped off.
      • Sectarian conflict is the deliberate consequence of foreign intervention.
      • On Baghdad's streets, rumors are rife about renegade ministry of interior death squads, carrying out sectarian killings.
      • Meanwhile, three police officers were injured when sectarian rioting erupted on the streets of north Belfast on Sunday night.
      • The press charged that the statement contained the same poisons that ignite sectarian strife.
      • I agree that sectarian clashes are a curse and there is need to bring these to an end.
      • At least 300 people have been killed in the Poso sectarian conflicts.
      • And as political questions move down the agenda, so cultural and purely sectarian conflicts have risen to the fore.
      • Their focus has been on Kashmir or on domestic sectarian violence.
      • It would unleash bloodshed, sectarian violence and regional instability - the very things that the invasion and occupation themselves have produced.
      • They have carried out several sectarian murders and launched hundreds of pipe-bomb and blast bombs attacks on Catholic homes.
      • Where sectarian activity can be proven among a club's support you suspend the club's licence.
      • Access to the school had been the focus of a bitter sectarian dispute last year lasting over four months.
      • The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters.
      • Chomsky himself has made some of the most deplorable, petty and doubtless sectarian attacks of any leftist I know.
      • He and his gang were planning to carry out random sectarian assassinations on Catholics in Belfast.
      • Even amid the worst sectarian violence, boxers here had a kind of diplomatic immunity.
      • The IRA carried out retaliatory sectarian murders.
      • But when sectarian dominance in any form has reared its ugly head, things have been bad.
      • Had she ever been involved in any sectarian conflict when she was growing up?
    2. 1.2 Rigidly following the doctrines of a sect or other group.
      the sectarian Bolshevism advocated by Moscow
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We are still in the process of ensuring that this armament is not sectarian in nature.
      • By implication, black feminism is cast as sectarian in comparison with radical or socialist feminism.
      • Each religion educates its young in a sectarian way, for religionists believe that to learn one specific path is sufficient and necessary.
      • Furthermore, a significant percentage of those organizations have been pervasively sectarian and used religious criteria in their hiring.
      Synonyms
      factional, schismatic, cliquish, clannish, partisan, parti pris
      denominational
      doctrinaire, dogmatic, extreme, fanatical, rigid, inflexible, bigoted, hidebound, narrow-minded
noun sɛkˈtɛːrɪənˌsɛkˈtɛriən
  • 1A member of a sect.

    a Jewish sectarian who preached the redemption of the Gentiles
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many colonists wondered if the Protestant sectarians might not be right.
    • One of the right's political accomplishments is bringing together diverse, once-hostile sectarians.
    • Some time later he was arrested as a " religious sectarian " and put in prison.
    • This, and not the subventions of hegemonic states, is what will ultimately defeat both the secular tyrannies and the religious sectarians.
    Synonyms
    separatist, dissenter, dissident, nonconformist, free thinker, renegade, recusant, schismatic, revisionist
    unbeliever, sceptic, agnostic, atheist, non-theist
    zealot, Young Turk, extremist, radical, activist, militant
    bigot, dogmatist, partisan, devotee
    1. 1.1 A person who rigidly follows the doctrines of a sect or other group.
      he became a target as a sectarian who had apparently denounced one liberal-minded reformer as ‘degenerate’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The, Church of England, it said, is like Christ crucified between two thieves, Papists on one side and Nonconformist sectarians on the other.
      • Even after the Reformation extreme sectarians despised Anglican clergy as ‘magicians, sorcerers, enchanters’.
      • Unlike his predecessor, who was seen as ecumenical, Benedict is seen as a sectarian who will not reach out to other religions.
      • But Allende's radical sectarians must stand trial too, and for the same moral reasons.
      • It's not just the radical white left or sectarians hawking papers for solidarity donations.
      Synonyms
      activist, extremist, radical, enthusiast, supporter, follower, devotee, young turk, zealot, fanatic, partisan

Derivatives

  • sectarianize

  • verb sɛkˈtɛːrɪənʌɪzsɛkˈtɛriəˌnaɪz
    [with object]
    • Divide into sects; make sectarian.

      they chose to sectarianize society by sowing the seeds of intolerance
      Example sentencesExamples
      • a sectarianized state
      • They are asking the local community to sectarianise the education system and increasingly the community is letting them!
      • It has also been predicated on the emergence of modern republicanism severed from a wider social base by the sectarianised social relations that have defined society in Northern Ireland.
      • Evidently the desire to collect information on the degree and nature of sectarianised habituation remains negligible.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from sectary + -an, reinforced by sect.

Rhymes

agrarian, antiquarian, apiarian, Aquarian, Arian, Aryan, authoritarian, barbarian, Bavarian, Bulgarian, Caesarean (US Cesarean), centenarian, communitarian, contrarian, Darien, disciplinarian, egalitarian, equalitarian, establishmentarian, fruitarian, Gibraltarian, grammarian, Hanoverian, humanitarian, Hungarian, latitudinarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, millenarian, necessarian, necessitarian, nonagenarian, octogenarian, ovarian, Parian, parliamentarian, planarian, predestinarian, prelapsarian, proletarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, quodlibetarian, Rastafarian, riparian, rosarian, Rotarian, sabbatarian, Sagittarian, sanitarian, Sauveterrian, seminarian, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, topiarian, totalitarian, Trinitarian, ubiquitarian, Unitarian, utilitarian, valetudinarian, vegetarian, veterinarian, vulgarian
 
 

Definition of sectarian in US English:

sectarian

adjectiveˌsɛkˈtɛriənˌsekˈterēən
  • 1Denoting or concerning a sect or sects.

    ethnic and sectarian differences
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They have been forced to hire devotees of sectarian Orthodoxy, who inevitably influence the religious orientation of their students.
    • Socialist politics are the only way to break down sectarian divisions.
    • The truth is that the Orange Order can no longer parade in a nakedly sectarian and triumphalist fashion.
    • And like any church, Adventism of course has its sectarian movements and offshoots.
    • This movement transcended religious and sectarian divisions and was determined to end the US-led occupation.
    • We can point, randomly, to instances that fuelled the fire of sectarian hatred.
    • Well first of all I don't think of religion at all in sectarian terms.
    • In northern Iraq, sectarian tensions are also escalating in the wake of the referendum.
    • One way to avoid any kind of sectarian essentializing leading to religious fanaticism is to read these texts in comparative and inclusive ways.
    • The demonstration spanned the city's traditional sectarian divide, with marchers coming from every area.
    • Sadr's decision will also exacerbate sectarian tensions between the Sunni and Shiite elite.
    • Occasionally, sectarian concerns discouraged both Protestants and Catholics from attending branches.
    • There is no room for petty insularity and sectarian nonsense - the Scots must see themselves as nimble enough to change and take on the world's best.
    • And the peace process itself entrenches the sectarian division between Protestant and Catholic.
    • But, after the earliest period, sectarian denominations became less and less important.
    • At the Agreement's heart was a Stormont Assembly that institutionalised the sectarian divide.
    • Today those closest to our violent past seem to dominate the political landscape and many remain entranced by sectarian concerns.
    • But it has been pursued with the same sectarian, thuggish, and ultimately self-defeating spirit.
    • With a separatist impulse, fundamentalism turned inward; but the sectarian subculture that coalesced was resourceful and vibrant.
    • The truth is that Northern Ireland is a state which nurtures sectarian divide and rule.
    1. 1.1 (of an action) carried out on the grounds of membership of a sect, denomination, or other group.
      a sectarian attack
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters.
      • Sectarian conflict is the deliberate consequence of foreign intervention.
      • Chomsky himself has made some of the most deplorable, petty and doubtless sectarian attacks of any leftist I know.
      • Access to the school had been the focus of a bitter sectarian dispute last year lasting over four months.
      • Even amid the worst sectarian violence, boxers here had a kind of diplomatic immunity.
      • But when sectarian dominance in any form has reared its ugly head, things have been bad.
      • The press charged that the statement contained the same poisons that ignite sectarian strife.
      • They have carried out several sectarian murders and launched hundreds of pipe-bomb and blast bombs attacks on Catholic homes.
      • Where sectarian activity can be proven among a club's support you suspend the club's licence.
      • Their focus has been on Kashmir or on domestic sectarian violence.
      • At least 300 people have been killed in the Poso sectarian conflicts.
      • And as political questions move down the agenda, so cultural and purely sectarian conflicts have risen to the fore.
      • The IRA carried out retaliatory sectarian murders.
      • He and his gang were planning to carry out random sectarian assassinations on Catholics in Belfast.
      • Meanwhile, three police officers were injured when sectarian rioting erupted on the streets of north Belfast on Sunday night.
      • Random sectarian killings slowed and more IRA men were bumped off.
      • It would unleash bloodshed, sectarian violence and regional instability - the very things that the invasion and occupation themselves have produced.
      • On Baghdad's streets, rumors are rife about renegade ministry of interior death squads, carrying out sectarian killings.
      • Had she ever been involved in any sectarian conflict when she was growing up?
      • I agree that sectarian clashes are a curse and there is need to bring these to an end.
    2. 1.2 Rigidly following the doctrines of a sect or other group.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Each religion educates its young in a sectarian way, for religionists believe that to learn one specific path is sufficient and necessary.
      • We are still in the process of ensuring that this armament is not sectarian in nature.
      • Furthermore, a significant percentage of those organizations have been pervasively sectarian and used religious criteria in their hiring.
      • By implication, black feminism is cast as sectarian in comparison with radical or socialist feminism.
      Synonyms
      factional, schismatic, cliquish, clannish, partisan, parti pris
nounˌsɛkˈtɛriənˌsekˈterēən
  • 1A member of a sect.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many colonists wondered if the Protestant sectarians might not be right.
    • One of the right's political accomplishments is bringing together diverse, once-hostile sectarians.
    • Some time later he was arrested as a " religious sectarian " and put in prison.
    • This, and not the subventions of hegemonic states, is what will ultimately defeat both the secular tyrannies and the religious sectarians.
    Synonyms
    separatist, dissenter, dissident, nonconformist, free thinker, renegade, recusant, schismatic, revisionist
    1. 1.1 A person who rigidly follows the doctrines of a sect or other group.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's not just the radical white left or sectarians hawking papers for solidarity donations.
      • But Allende's radical sectarians must stand trial too, and for the same moral reasons.
      • Even after the Reformation extreme sectarians despised Anglican clergy as ‘magicians, sorcerers, enchanters’.
      • Unlike his predecessor, who was seen as ecumenical, Benedict is seen as a sectarian who will not reach out to other religions.
      • The, Church of England, it said, is like Christ crucified between two thieves, Papists on one side and Nonconformist sectarians on the other.
      Synonyms
      activist, extremist, radical, enthusiast, supporter, follower, devotee, young turk, zealot, fanatic, partisan

Origin

Mid 17th century: from sectary + -an, reinforced by sect.

 
 
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