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   sectarian

   /sɛkˈtɛːrɪən/

   adjective

   • 1. denoting or concerning a sect or sects: "the city's traditional sectarian divide"
   • ▪ (of an action) carried out on the grounds of membership of a sect, denomination, or other group: "sectarian killings"
   • ▪ rigidly following the doctrines of a sect or other group: "the sectarian Bolshevism advocated by Moscow"

   noun

   • 1. a member of a sect: "a Jewish sectarian who preached the redemption of the Gentiles"
   • ▪ a person who rigidly follows the doctrines of a sect or other group: "he became a target as a sectarian who had apparently denounced one reformer as ‘degenerate’"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from sectary + -an, reinforced by sect.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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