sect 的定义
- a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination.
- a group regarded as heretical or as deviating from a generally accepted religious tradition.
- a Christian denomination characterized by insistence on strict qualifications for membership, as distinguished from the more inclusive groups called churches.
- any group, party, or faction united by a specific doctrine or under a doctrinal leader.
sect 近义词
school of thought
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- Fasting is also possible throughout the year by individuals, but this celebration is the common communal embracing of fasting across sects.
- Yesterday, Twitter deleted tweets and videos of President Muhammadu Buhari making threats of punishment to a sect called IPOB in the South-Eastern part of the country after he blamed them for attacks on government buildings.
- For a certain jet-setting sect, wide-open spaces with views, few Covid-19 cases, and the freedom to go maskless are all the rage.
- She specifically focused on the Satmar community, the sect Feldman was once part of.
- It also resembles those of a 1st-century sect leader in Palestine who was also popular with the poor.
- On a 2,813-acre tract roughly 30 miles west, Washington found a Calvinist sect called the Seceders squatting on his land.
- He was an Ahmadi, a minority Muslim sect that Pakistan has declared un-Islamic and against which it discriminates horribly.
- Perl loved all kinds of music, including rock and roll, growing up in the Chabad community, a sect of Hasidic Judaism.
- The Yazidis, members of an ancient religious sect, fled when the Islamic State overran their homes.
- In this she differed from others of her sect, who strove to convey the idea of humility both outwardly and inwardly.
- He was the chief of the seven sages of Greece, and founder of the Ionic sect of philosophers.
- The reader may give three lines to both, if he pleases; see note to sect.
- Certainly the most cultivated and aristocratic sect--the Sadducees--repudiated it altogether; while the Pharisees held to it.
- At the close of the last century there existed a religious sect who were in favour of abandoning the use of clothing.