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sectarianism|sɛkˈtɛərɪənɪz(ə)m| [f. prec. + -ism.] The sectarian spirit; adherence or excessive attachment to a particular sect or party, esp. in religion; hence often, adherence or excessive attachment to, or undue favouring of, a particular ‘denomination’.
1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. I. xii. 249 The spirit of sectarianism has been..the cause of our failures. We have imprisoned our own conceptions by the lines, which we have drawn, in order to exclude the conceptions of others. 1818― in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 89 [In Shakespeare] there is no sectarianism, either of politics or religion. 1833Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 73 We shall find in that art [Music], so peculiarly the expression of passion, two perfectly distinct stiles; one of which may be called the poetry, the other the oratory of music. This difference, being seized, would put an end to much musical sectarianism. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke i, For art and poetry were tabooed both by my rank and my mother's sectarianism. 1870Athenæum 30 Apr. 573 There is nothing in the poems before us to denote sectarianism in Art or to provoke antagonism from any class of true critics in poetry. 1889Spectator 27 Apr., The book is Roman Catholic, but there is no bigotry or narrow sectarianism about it. |