[go: up one dir, main page]
More Web Proxy on the site http://driver.im/Jump to content

sectarianism

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

From sectarian +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

sectarianism (countable and uncountable, plural sectarianisms)

  1. Rigid adherence to a particular sect, denomination, ideology, or party.
    They were discussing sectarianism between Shias and Sunnis.
  2. (politics) A political system in which power is shared among religious sects based on a constitutional formula distributing public offices among these sects.
    In Lebanese sectarianism, one half of the members of parliament are Christians and the other half are Muslims.

Derived terms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]