单词 | sectarianism |
释义 | sectarianismn. 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’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] separatism1628 sectarisma1643 sectarianism1817 denominationalism1855 sectism1864 separationism1875 denominationality1892 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria 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. 1833 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repository Jan. 66 We shall find in that art [sc.Music], so peculiarly the expression of passion, two perfectly distinct styles; 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. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 89 [In Shakespeare] there is no sectarianism, either of politics or religion. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. i. 7 For art and poetry were tabooed both by my rank and my mother's sectarianism. 1870 Athenæum 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. 1889 Spectator 27 Apr. The book is Roman Catholic, but there is no bigotry or narrow sectarianism about it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。