sectary
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The latter was commissioned by the home sectary and Sir Ken.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
An ex-senior adviser recalled being sent a document about a reform agenda and a permanent sectary ordering them to "just bin it immediately".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
The relation of sectary to Vishnuite, and to the All-spirit deist, may be illustrated most clearly by comparison with Occidental religions.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins
Do we find that He assumed the tone of an enthusiast or ambitious sectary?
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
I turned to face the grim-faced sectary, still too thoroughly winded by his late exertions to try the lift of a Psalm.
From Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France by Randall Parrish
Salon called and emailed the offices of sectaries Kerry and Carter, as well as the Departments of State and Defense, multiple times with requests for comment.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2016
Her father gets his graceful due: To truth a shield, to right a wall, To sectaries a whip and maul.
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These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception.
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All this, it is evident, could only be favorable to the growth of Waldensianism, as is seen in the activity of the sectaries.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
These pacific sectaries found themselves in a new and embarrassing position, for hitherto they had been able to assert their principles at no great risk to person or property.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman