sectary

n. 宗派成员

词形变化

sectaries 复数 sectaries

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.

    It is this spirit which inspires sectaries to deprecate the public schools and, if they cannot divert part of the tax support, then to foist upon this free system the shadow of their own beclouded vision.

  2. 2.

    A Protestant dissenter or nonconformist.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

sectarian sectarist

上位词 1

bigot

词源

Either from the French sectaire or directly from its etymon, the Medieval Latin sectārius, from secta (“sect”). Cognates include the Italian settario and the Portuguese and Spanish sectario.

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