polysectarian

adj

polysectarian

adj

Etymology From poly- + sectarian.

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Composed of many sects.

  • In time it became as impossible for polyglot and polysectarian America to provide a common religious standard for her public schools as for her Army or her railways.1919, The Dublin Review, Ed. Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, publ. W. Spooner, v.165, pg. 151
  • The reason for this are to be found in the polysectarian nature of Lebanon with the largest sect being a minority of the total population.1974, Pakistan Horizon, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, v.27, pg. 19
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  • However, Byzantium, like the Roman Empire, remained a polyglot, multinational and polysectarian state during the greater part of its existence.2007, George Mousourakis, A Legal History of Rome, →ISBN, page 156:

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