Sectarian - English meaning

noun

A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of god.

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Although not all skeptics are agnostics, as an agnostic himself dr groves sees no evidence for acce…

adjective

Relating to agnostics or agnosticism.

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So that wrestling is characteristic of my religious or agnostic poetry, but not necessarily everyth…

noun

Someone who believes that it is impossible to know whether or not god exists

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A person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of god or gods.

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He is a committed atheist

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Someone who believes that god does not exist

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Atheistic books and articles

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A person or thing that interrupts an event, activity, or process by causing a disturbance or problem.

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The film follows his evolution from hollywood star to political disruptor

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A person or thing that prevents something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected

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Endocrine/hormone disruptors, if customers talk to everybody else they get the status quo. we're th…

noun

A person who dissents.

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After all, the first amendment aims to protect the outsider, the dissenter, the protester: those wi…

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Someone who dissents

noun

A person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.

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A dissident who had been jailed by a military regime

adjective

In opposition to official policy.

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The measure was supported by dissident tories

noun

A person who strongly disagrees with and publicly criticizes a government or the official rulings of a group or organization

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Union dissidents have challenged the leadership of the current president., dissident views

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A person who holds extreme political or religious views, especially one who advocates illegal, violent, or other extreme action.

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Political extremists

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Someone who has an opinion or ideas that seem unreasonable to most people

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Political extremism

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Someone who does not believe in the existence of a god or gods

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I prefer to call myself a nontheist rather than an atheist as it sounds less dismissive., it's diff…

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A member of a protestant church which dissents from the established church of england.

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Originally a nonconformist, he was later converted to anglo-catholicism

adjective

Relating to nonconformists or their principles and practices.

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Teetotalism was a largely nonconformist movement

noun

A person who does not live and think according to accepted customs and standards

adjective

(especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.

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A radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework

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A person who advocates thorough or complete political or social change, or a member of a political party or section of a party pursuing such aims.

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The party has not tried to disguise its new deregulatory approach, which is causing unease among pa…

adjective

Believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social, economic, or political change

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White’s political orientation was decidedly liberal, but hardly radical., during bad economic times…

noun

A person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation.

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The lancashire desolation and remoteness was a refuge for recusants - awkward people who were stubb…

adjective

Of or denoting a recusant.

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His ravishing portrait of the young english recusant nun elizabeth throckmorton (c. 1729; washingto…

noun

A person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

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An agent who later turns out to be a renegade

adjective

Having treacherously changed allegiance.

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A renegade bodyguard

verb

Become a renegade.

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Johnson had renegaded from the confederacy

noun

A supporter of a policy of revision or modification.

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The revisionists who sought to replace it were long denied

adjective

Advocating a policy of revision or modification.

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In the first phase of progressive reform, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and …

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Someone who examines and tries to change existing beliefs about how events happened or what their importance or meaning is

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Revisionists within the communist party, revisionist historians, revisionist biographies of soviet …

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A person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions.

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This argument failed to convince the sceptics

adjective

Another term for sceptical.

noun

A person who doubts the truth or value of an idea or belief

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People say it can cure colds, but i'm a bit of a sceptic., to convince the sceptics

adjective

Characterized by or favouring schism.

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Schismatic religious movements were gaining currency

noun

(especially in the christian church) a person who promotes schism; an adherent of a schismatic group.

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If the term ‘christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would…

noun

A person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.

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Religious separatists

adjective

Relating to separatists or separatism.

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A separatist rebellion

noun

Someone who supports an effort to become independent of the country or group to which the person belongs

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Albanian/basque/chechen separatists

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Someone who has no religious beliefs, or who does not follow a particular religion.

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I am english, born in britain, but i am referred to as a heretic, unbeliever, infidel, etc., becaus…

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A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.

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He says there have always been religious zealots, but modern technology has given them a lethal cap…

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A person who has very strong opinions about something, and tries to make other people have them too

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A religious zealot