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Word: Sect
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English: from Old French secte or Latin secta, literally ‘following’, hence ‘faction, party’, from the stem of sequi ‘follow’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
sɛkt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong.
Short Definition:group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs regarded as heretical from those of larger group
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