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bisectarian

bisectarian adjective: pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects.

Adjective

bisectarian (comparative more bisectarian, superlative most bisectarian)

  1. Pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects.
    • The Northern Ireland Labor Party, bisectarian and from 1945 committed to partition, has been an exception to the opposition's typical character.1972, Northern Ireland: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, February 28 and 29 and March 1, 1972, publ. United States Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on...
    • The bisectarian prism tended not only to relegate to irrelevance the concerns and interests of the other sects, but also to cause the Sunni and Maronite leaders only too aware of one another, tended by the same token to be exclusivist and somehow to abolish from view the existence of other sects...1991, Leila Tarazi Fawaz, Fida Nasrallah, and Nadim Shehadi, State and Society in Lebanon, publ. Centre for Lebanese Studies, Tufts University, →ISBN, page 31

Forms of bisectarian

comparativemore bisectarian
superlativemost bisectarian
alternative formbi-sectarian

Origin of bisectarian

From bi- + sectarian.

Questions about bisectarian

What does bisectarian mean?
Bisectarian means pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects.
What part of speech is bisectarian?
Bisectarian is an adjective.

Words near bisectarian in the dictionary

  1. BISDN
  2. bise
  3. bisecant
  4. bisecants
  5. bisect
  6. bisectarian
  7. bisected
  8. bisecting
  9. bisection
  10. bisection method
  11. bisection methods

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