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sectary

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
  2. A Protestant dissenter or nonconformist.

Equivalents

Русскийсектант
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Հայերենաղանդավոր

Examples

“Be it as it may: within the Land⟳ of Penn / The sectary yielded to the citizen, / And peaceful dwelt the many-creeded men.”
“It is this spirit which inspires sectaries to deprecate the public schools and, if they cannot divert part of the tax support⟳, then to foist upon this free system the shadow of their own⟳ beclouded vision.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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