Sect - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |sekt|  American pronunciation of the word sect
Brit.  |sekt|  British pronunciation of the word sect

noun

- a subdivision of a larger religious group
- a dissenting clique (syn: faction)

Extra examples

...one sect of medical researchers holds the minority view that the disease is not caused by that virus...

...a religous sect that expects its unmarried members to be completely celibate and its married adherents to maintain continent relationships...

...a strict religious sect that abjures the luxuries, comforts, and conveniences of the modern world...

...a list of the chief differentiae between a controlling cult and a legitimate religious sect...

...the comfort of having a faith free from all dubiety is what attracts people to the religious sect...

...a strict sect that believes that fellowship with gentiles should exist only for the purposes of conversion...

...a conservative Christian sect with a code of sexual morality that is often seen as quaintly Victorian by outsiders...

This religious sect had a large following among young people.

They had come under the influence of a strange religious sect.

...a 19th-century church in the repressed style favored by the strict religious sect...

...the completely unadorned clothing favored by members of that religious sect...

Word forms

noun
singular: sect
plural: sects
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