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sectary

[sek-tuh-ree] / ˈsɛk tə ri /




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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

Thus it will be seen that Wanless, though in his way a profoundly religious man, was in no sense a sectary.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson

In the former case, every fanatical sectary may judge in matters of religion as securely as if he had the whole world on his side.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

At first he was regarded by his "pastors and masters" as a mere wilful, noisy, praying sectary.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies

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

These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her father gets his graceful due: To truth a shield, to right a wall, To sectaries a whip and maul.

From Time Magazine Archive

Conrad Schmidt had promulgated his errors in Thuringia, where his sectaries were discovered, in 1414, at Sangerhausen.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

Thereby these sectaries were authorized to claim a part of the usufruct of parochial properties, and to employ in their services the use of Catholic churches and vestments.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham




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