1
a
: a dissenting or schismatic religious body
especially
: one regarded as extreme or heretical
b
: a religious denomination
2
archaic
: sex sense 1
so is all her sect—
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Noun
one sect of medical researchers holds the minority view that the disease is not caused by that virus
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Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
With 18 official sects, Lebanon employs a complex political system in which religious communities share power and government positions and seats in parliament are distributed in rough proportion to the country’s demographics.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
More than 50 inmates, including the leader of a religious sect, broke free from the Makala prison in 2017 following an invasion by the group.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
She was especially drawn to the Cathars, a medieval sect whose ascetic practices spoke to her own quest for disembodiment, as did their martyrdom.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Some of the elders still remember the days when most Shia were mired in rural poverty, mistreated not just by Lebanon’s other sects but by their own semifeudal overlords.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
With 18 official sects, Lebanon employs a complex political system in which religious communities share power and government positions and seats in parliament are distributed in rough proportion to the country’s demographics.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
More than 50 inmates, including the leader of a religious sect, broke free from the Makala prison in 2017 following an invasion by the group.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
She was especially drawn to the Cathars, a medieval sect whose ascetic practices spoke to her own quest for disembodiment, as did their martyrdom.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Sect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sect. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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