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sectaries

sectaries is the plural of sectary.

Meaning of sectary

Noun

sectary (plural sectaries)

  1. A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
    • Be it as it may: within the Land of Penn / The sectary yielded to the citizen, / And peaceful dwelt the many-creeded men.1872, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Pennsylvania Pilgrim”, in The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co....
  2. A Protestant dissenter or nonconformist.

Questions about sectaries

What is sectaries the plural of?
Sectaries is the plural of sectary.

Words near sectaries in the dictionary

  1. sectarianized
  2. sectarianizes
  3. sectarianizing
  4. sectarianly
  5. sectarians
  6. sectaries
  7. sectarism
  8. sectarisms
  9. sectarist
  10. sectarists
  11. sectary

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