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Definitions: Sectarian |
SectarianAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects; "sectarian differences". 2. Belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind"; "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook; "sectarian squabbles in psychology". Noun1. A member of a sect who is intolerant of the views of any other sect. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sectarian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
Synonym: SectarianSynonym: heretic. (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonsectarian (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor, advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel. |
Dissent | Sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant. |
Heterodoxy | Adjective: heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular; (lay). |
Schismatic; sectary, sectarian, sectarist; seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter; nonconformist, nonjuror. | |
Theology | Adjective: theological, religious; denominational; sectarian. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sectarian |
| English words defined with "sectarian": Sectarianize, Sectary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sectarian": One-horse Universities. (references) |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement. (reference) |
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Civil Liberties | Syria | The Government also does not permit sectarian issues to be raised. (references) |
Pakistan | Antiterrorist courts also handed down convictions against several individuals accused of sectarian violence. (references) | |
Belgium | Attached to the report was a list of 189 sectarian organizations that were mentioned during testimony before the commission. (references) | |
Discrimination | Saudi Arabia | The Shi'a religious minority suffers social, legal, economic, political, and sectarian discrimination. (references) |
Economic History | Lebanon | However, most are based on sectarian interests. (references) |
Pakistan | Also, some Pakistanis suspect Iranian support for the sectarian violence which has plagued Pakistan. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Politically motivated and sectarian violence continued with several persons killed during the year. (references) |
Pakistan | On March 1, sectarian rioting in Hangu, a small city in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), resulted in at least 10 deaths. (references) | |
United Kingdom | Diplock courts were established to avoid cases being heard by juries that might make decisions along sectarian lines, as well as to protect jurors from intimidation. (references) | |
Minorities | United Kingdom | Although the residents claimed that their demonstration "was not against the children," the protest involved shouting sectarian abuse and throwing debris (including bags of urine) at the children. (references) |
Pakistan | Several incidents of sectarian violence between rival Sunni and Shi'a groups typically occur during Muharram, the time when Shi'a Muslims mourn the deaths of the Prophet Mohammed's nephew, Ali and Ali's son Hussain. (references) | |
Pakistan | In Punjab in particular, a deadly pattern of Sunni-Shi'a violence in which extremists killed persons because of their membership in rival sectarian organizations, or simply for their religious identification, continued. (references) | |
Political Economy | KUWAIT | This extends to prescription of internal rules and constitutions, including prohibition of involvement in domestic political, religious or sectarian issues. (references) |
Pakistan | Two organizations responsible for sectarian killings were banned on August 14, and by year's end, the Government had accelerated a crackdown on members of several extremist religious groups. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sectarian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.70% of the time. "Sectarian" is used about 182 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.7% | 176 | 23,410 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.3% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 182 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sectarian": sectarian-based, sectarian-cum-geographic. | |
Ending with "sectarian": non-sectarian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sectarian | 8 |
conflict religious sectarian | 6 |
church non sectarian | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sectarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sektar (dissenter, sectary), fanatik (bigot, bigoted, devotee, fanatic, fanatical, freak, pious, zealot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متعصب (bigot, bigoted, devout, factional, fanatic, fanatical, fundamentalist, hard liner, illiberal, intolerant, narrow minded, orthodox, pi, prejudiced, zealot), عضو في طائفة, طائفي (communal), ضيق الأفق (insular, narrow minded, petty, small minded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сектантски (nonconformist, partisan), сектант (dissenter, nonconformist, revivalist, sectary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sektářský, sektář (sectary), fanatický přívrženec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرقه گرای , فرقه ای , کوته بین , حزبی , تیره ای . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lahkolainen (dissenter, nonconformist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sectaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sektierer (separatist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σχισματικόσ (dissenter, schismatic, secessionist, sectary, separatist), φανατικόσ (bigot, bigoted, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, zealot), αιρετικόσ (heretic, heretical, nonconformist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פל' י (factional, schismatic, schismatical), כתתי (factional, of a school class), כת (class, company, denomination, faction, party, sect), צר אפק (hidebound, insular, narrow minded, provincial, small minded, stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szektariánus (sectary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | settario (bigoted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scarreydagh (diacritic, schismatic, separable, separatist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ectariansay sectário (denominational, follower, sectary), indivíduo faccioso. (various references) sectar, sectant (nonconformist), dogmatic (assertive, doctrinal, dogmatic, dogmatically, opinionated, opinioned, peremptory, scholastic), de sectã. (various references) сектантский (denominational), сектант (dissenter, nonconformist, sectary). (various references) sektaški (denominational), sektaš (sectary). (various references) sectario (denominational, sectary). (various references) sekteristisk, sekterist. (various references) tutucu kimse (die hard, fanatic, fuddy-duddy, old fogey, old fogy, stickler), tutucu (conservative, dyed in the wool, fanatical, fuddy-duddy, hidebound, puritan, puritanical, square-toed, stick in the mud, strait laced, stuffy, unprogressive, uptight, wowser), tarikatla ilgili, tarikatçı, mezhep (creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, order, religion, sect), hizipçi (cliquish, demagog, demagogue, factionist, factious, fomenter, separatist), bağnaz kimse (bigot, religionist, zealot), bağnaz (bigoted, fanatical, hard-shell, illiberal, narrow minded, puritan, puritanical, rabid, strait laced, zealous). (various references) сектантський (dissident, nonconforming, nonconformist), сектант (dissident, maverick, nonconformist, sectary), фанатик (bigot, fanatic, fundamentalist, mucker, partisan, zealot), дрібний (bantam, fractional, hair splitting, little, minute, negligible, niggling, picayune, piddling, potty, small, small minded, tin-pot), дисидентський (nonconforming, nonconformist). (various references) người bè phái, có óc bè phái. (various references) sectyddol, enwadwr, enwadol (nominative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sectarian": sectarianism, sectarianisms, sectarianize, sectarianized, sectarianizes, sectarianizing, sectarians. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sectarian": nonsectarian. (additional references) | |
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"Sectarian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asataryan, estalian, Sachturia, sacrarium, sectorial, Sekanina, septarian, Setaria, Tsektran. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sectarian" (pronounced sekte"rēun) |
| 9 | s e k t e" r ē u n | nonsectarian. |
| 6 | -t e" r ē u n | authoritarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, libertarian, majoritarian, parliamentarian, proletarian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, vegetarian. |
| 5 | -e" r ē u n | agrarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, Clarion, contrarian, disciplinarian, librarian, octogenarian, ovarian, planarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, veterinarian. |
| 4 | -r ē u n | centurion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | accordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ascertain, craniates. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acarines, antisera, canaries, canister, carinate, caterans, ceratins, cesarian, cisterna, craniate, creatins, estancia, ratanies, scantier, seatrain, tacrines. | |
-2 letters: acarine, acetins, acrasin, anestri, antiars, anticar, antsier, arcsine, aristae, arnicas, arsenic, artisan, asteria, atresia, canters, carates, carinae, carinas, caritas, carnets, carnies, catenas, cateran, ceratin, certain, cineast, cistern, creatin, cretins, cristae, entasia, narcist, nastier, nectars, raciest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: anticaries, ascertains, catenaries, discarnate, incarnates, sectarians, tarriances. | |
+2 letters: abreactions, aeronautics, anthracites, ascertained, cantatrices, cantharides, caretakings, carnalities, carnallites, catarrhines, ceratopsian, deracinates, lacerations, macerations, pancreatins, reacquaints, sanctuaries, tetracaines, vacationers. | |
+3 letters: altercations, anacreontics, antipiracies, ascertaining, bicarbonates, candidatures, cardinalates, carminatives, centenarians, ceratopsians, declarations, demarcations, emancipators, eradications, fractionates, incarcerates, interactants, intercalates, intercoastal, nonsectarian, pancreatitis, rarefactions, ratiocinates, recantations, reclamations, reescalating, reescalation, reincarnates, revaccinates, scatteration, scatterbrain, sectarianism, sectarianize, tradescantia, transoceanic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 63 74 61 72 69 61 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -.-. - .- .-. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e c t a r i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0063 0074 0061 0072 0069 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537169866784756780 |
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