sectariannoun [ C ], adjective
uk/sekˈteə.ri.ən/us/sekˈter.i.ən/mainly disapproving(a person) strongly supporting a particular religious group and not willing to accept other beliefs:
a sectarian murder
He called on terrorists on both sides of the sectarian divide to end the cycle of violence.
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Religious people: followers of religious groups
- Adventist
- Anglican
- animism
- Baptist
- born-again
- Calvinist
- get religion idiom
- guru
- Hare Krishna
- Hindu
- hot-gospeller
- non-sectarian
- nonconformist
- pantheism
- papist
- Parsi
- puritan
- televangelism
- yogi
- Zionism
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sectarianism
noun [ U ] uk/sekˈteə.ri.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/sekˈter.i.ə.nɪ.zəm/disapproving