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Definition of Sects
1. sect [n] - See also: sect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sects
Literary usage of Sects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"For the same reason, and proportionately, a thousand small sects have failed ...
All the early Eastern sects fed on the fanciful speculations so dear to the ..."
2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"I. Among these phenomena is to be mentioned the rise of anti-sacerdotal sects
which sprang up as early as the eleventh century, but flourished chiefly in ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Some of the sects imitate Christian methods, establishing schools for boys and
girls, ... Its progress was Japanese Buddhism is divided into many sects. ..."
4. Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Robert Studley Vidal, James Murdock (1854)
"Jewish sects. Among the various untoward circumstances which conspired to undermine
the welfare of the Jewish nation, one of the chief was that, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"... to represent the ecclesiastical and political schism of the Oriental sects,
and to introduce their clamorous or sanguinary contests by a modest inquiry ..."
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