Crossword-Solution: SECTARIAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sectarian | n. | Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices. |
| Sectarian | n. | One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SECTARIAN | anagram | ASCERTAIN, CARTESIAN |
We have 11 clues for the answer “SECTARIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cult member | 1 answer |
| Narrowly confined | 1 answer |
| belonging to or characteristic of a sect | 1 answer |
| DENOMINATIONAL | 3 answers |
| heterodox | 5 answers |
| Schismatic | 11 answers |
| Heretical | 31 answers |
| Adherent | 33 answers |
| Doubter | 37 answers |
| Partisan | 43 answers |
| Parochial | 49 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SECTARIAN (5)
They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.
There are, no doubt, all shades of opinion among us; but if you merely include those who in their private hearts disbelieve the doctrines usually accepted, and think that sectarian churches tend to evil rather than good, I fancy that the figures would be rather surprising.
All the religious wars, the private feuds, and the countless miseries of sectarian contention, would have been at least minimised, if not avoided, had the bare example of Christ's life been adopted as the standard of conduct and of religion.
Hence the smallness, the triteness, and the inhumanity in works of merely sectarian religion; and hence we find equal although unsimilar limitation in works inspired by the spirit of the flesh or the despicable taste for high society.
Moreover, in the majority of American institutions of learning down to the middle of the century, the main reliance for the religious culture of students was in the perfunctory presentation of sectarian theology, and the occasional stirring up of what were called "revivals," which, after a period of unhealthy stimulus, inevitably left the main body of students in a state of religious and moral reaction and collapse.
Quotes with SECTARIAN (3)
The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are …
The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of nonduality.
[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching. What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, "I'll offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people"? Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could do that only be ceasing to be a lamp. And obser…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1974–2023).