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postsectarian

postsectarian adjective: after or beyond sects or sectarianism, especially as a reaction to sectarianism.

Adjective

postsectarian (comparative more postsectarian, superlative most postsectarian)

  1. After or beyond sects or sectarianism, especially as a reaction to sectarianism.
    • This development is to be seen in the context of the current popularity of describing aspects of the present scene as "post" something—post-Christian, post-Constantinian, post-Protestant, postliberal, postmodern, postsectarian, postcommunist, not to mention the almost sacred posts of the biblical...1985, Sidney Earl Mead, The Nation with the Soul of a Church, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 11
    • For if the core members of the Vietnam Lobby stood for anything in the 1950s, it was a vision of a postsectarian world whose embrace of the "culture concept" ensured universal tolerance and human freedom, the veritable free marketplace of ideas for which expansive Americans had so long yearned.2000, Christian G. Appy, Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966, Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 233

Noun

postsectarian (plural postsectarians)

  1. (rare) An adherent of postsectarian philosophy.

Forms of postsectarian

Adjective
comparativemore postsectarian
superlativemost postsectarian
alternative formpost-sectarian
Noun
pluralpostsectarians

Origin of postsectarian

From post- + sectarian.

Questions about postsectarian

What does postsectarian mean?
Postsectarian means after or beyond sects or sectarianism, especially as a reaction to sectarianism.
What part of speech is postsectarian?
Postsectarian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postsectarian in the dictionary

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  2. postsecondary
  3. postsecondary school
  4. postsecondary schools
  5. postsecretory
  6. postsectarian
  7. postsectarians
  8. postsecular
  9. postsedimentary
  10. postsegregation
  11. postsegregational

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