Associations to the word «Sectarian»

Wiktionary

SECTARIAN, adjective. Of, or relating to a sect.
SECTARIAN, adjective. Dogmatic or partisan.
SECTARIAN, adjective. Parochial or narrow-minded.
SECTARIAN, adjective. Bigoted.
SECTARIAN, noun. A member of a sect.
SECTARIAN, noun. A bigot.

Dictionary definition

SECTARIAN, noun. A member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect".
SECTARIAN, adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects; "sectarian differences".
SECTARIAN, adjective. Belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind"; "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook; "sectarian squabbles in psychology".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats