Definition of sect

"sect" in the noun sense

1. sect, religious sect, religious order

a subdivision of a larger religious group

2. faction, sect

a dissenting clique

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Quotations for sect

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. [ Pope ]

Sworn to no master, of no sect am I;
As drives the storm, at any door I knock,
And house with Montaigne now, and now with Locke. [ Pope ]

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down. [ Macaulay ]

There never was any party, faction, or sect in which the most ignorant was not the most violent. [ Pope ]

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. [ Pope ]

Socrates, who is by all accounts the undoubted head of the sect of the hen-pecked, owed, and acknowledged that he owed a great part of his virtue to the exercise his useful wife constantly gave him. [ Steele ]

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. [ Lavater ]

Persuasion, Sect, or Denomination? Persuasion, the definition of which should be plain to every one who speaks English, is often ludicrously used in the sense of sect or denomination; as, He is of the Methodist persuasion. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials: when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. [ Shenstone ]

The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. [ Carlyle ]

sect in Scrabble®

The word sect is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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sect in Words With Friends™

The word sect is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters sect:

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Words containing the sequence sect

Words with sect in them (183 words)

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Word Growth involving sect

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Longer words containing sect

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bisect bisection bisections

bisect bisector bisectors

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insect insecticidal insecticidally

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insect insectlike

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intersect intersection intersections

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