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counter-sectarian en · ADJ

Etymology

From counter- + sectarian.

Meanings

1. (rare) anti-sectarian
   • The exercises on that occasion, however, I was happy to be informed, were well calculated to strengthen the claims of that respectable institution on public patronage—claims which, from its separation from counter-sectarian influence, ought to be peculiarly owned by the members of our Communion. 1833 October 4, Benjamin T. Onderdonk, Journal of the Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York, New York: Protestant Episcopal Press, page 23:
   • The ministry assembled lists of sectarian publications, subsidized the dissemination of counter-sectarian texts and closely monitored religious groups and associations of all kinds. 2007 September 6, Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 653:

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