Word Meanings - SECTARIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SECTARIANISM)

• Schism
• Division
• separation
• disruption
• secession
• diversity
• sectarianism
• breach
• dissent
• discord

Related words: (words related to SECTARIANISM)

• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• DISSENTIVE
  Disagreeing; inconsistent. Feltham.
• SCHISMA
  An interval equal to half a comma.
• SECESSIONISM
  The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
• DISSENTIATE
  To throw into a state of dissent. Feltham.
• DISSENTIOUS
  Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- Dis*sen"tious*ly, adv.
• DISCORDOUS
  Full of discord.
• SECESSION
  The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. Secession Church . See Seceder. (more info) 1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.
• DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
  State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.
• DISSENTERISM
  The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev.
• DISSENTATION
  Dissension. W. Browne.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• DISCORDANT
  discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
• DISSENTIENT
  Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n.
• BREACH
  A hernia; a rupture. 8. A breaking out upon; an assault. The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza. 1. Chron. xiii. 11 Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. -- Breach of
• BREACHY
  Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
• SCHISMATIC
  Of or pertaining to schism; implying schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as, schismatic opinions or proposals.
• SECTARIANISM
  The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• SEA BREACH
  A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.