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Sectarianism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Rigid adherence to a particular sect, denomination, ideology, or party. countable, uncountable

    "They were discussing sectarianism between Shias and Sunnis."

  2. 2
    a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination wordnet
  3. 3
    A political system in which power is shared among religious sects based on a constitutional formula distributing public offices among these sects. countable, uncountable

    "In Lebanese sectarianism, one half of the members of parliament are Christians and the other half are Muslims."

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From sectarian + -ism.

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