Definition of Sect

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Definition of Sect

Sect

A cutting; a scion.

Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.

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Sect Quotations

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
Thomas Babington

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Ezra Pound

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
Paul Harris

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
Goldwin Smith

Sect Translations

sect in Dutch is sekte
sect in French is secte
sect in German is Sekte
sect in Hungarian is szekta
sect in Italian is setta
sect in Spanish is secta
sect in Swedish is sekt

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