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sect

/sekt/US // sɛkt //UK // (sɛkt) //

教派,教会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.