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Example sentences for "sectarians"

Lexicographically close words:
sect; secta; sectarial; sectarian; sectarianism; sectaries; sectary; secte; section; sectional
  1. Further, the Gondar sectarians assert that Christ received the Holy Ghost by the Father, whilst those of Tigre affirm that, being God himself, he gave the Holy Ghost unto himself.

  2. In respect of numbers the sectarians compose a very formidable body.

  3. Under these circumstances it is important to know how far the sectarians are politically disaffected.

  4. If these numbers be correct, the sectarians constitute about an eighth of the whole population of the Empire.

  5. The audacity and violence of these ferocious sectarians knew no bounds.

  6. In this, these sectarians disregarded the remark of St. Augustine: "Nefas est dicere Deum aliquid nisi bonum predestinare.

  7. In vain did the sectarians offer to leave the town, their offer came too late, and the little band drove them from one rallying point to another.

  8. Once when sectarians were framing all manner of falsehoods and sending them broadcast over the country, some of his friends came to him saying, "How can you stand all this?

  9. Blind sectarians ask us, "What have you got to bind you together?

  10. He was sent for by his father-in-law to come to Upper Sandusky, where sectarians were making inroads among the converts.

  11. The sectarians are making a stampede this morning.

  12. I know it is very difficult to convince sectarians that they are not a pious people.

  13. How do devoted sectarians entertain the Latter-day Saints?

  14. Look at the conduct of devoted sectarians towards the Latter-day Saints, and mark the resemblance to that of ancient Jews to former Saints.

  15. With us, too, political sectarians are hardly and cruelly treated, but because one is accustomed to believe in the necessity of the State, the cruelty is not so deeply felt here as it is where we repudiate the views.

  16. These sectarians were altogether unmanageable by the means of ordinary power or reason; they would neither pay fines nor work in prison, nor, when liberated, promise to amend their conduct.

  17. Sectarians will not venture to rhapsodise, nor infidels to scoff, in the common intercourse of society.

  18. His manners were highly polished; his piety active and sincere, and infinitely more mild and tolerant than that of the factious Sectarians who form the great majority of the American priesthood.

  19. The settlers of New England were at the same time ardent sectarians and daring innovators.

  20. The religious and political passions which ravaged the British Empire during the whole reign of Charles I drove fresh crowds of sectarians every year to the shores of America.

  21. At other times Luther expresses wonder at the wrong-headed sectarians who can with such confidence look even death itself in the face.

  22. This is the mistake of sectarians and rationalists, who deny authority in matters of faith.

  23. Sectarians and rationalists claim to be free, and to reason freely, because, as they pretend, they are bound by no human authority, and recognize no authority in faith but their own reason.

  24. The habits of these sectarians are of an extreme austerity that strips domestic life of all its ordinary charms.

  25. We have seen few sectarians whose religious views are characterised by so much sound sense.

  26. Such unorthodox persons may be described as sectarians or dissenters.

  27. And it must be borne in mind that these sectarians are very far from resting their belief on the Vedas, the Brahma[n.

  28. Their vocabulary of Billingsgate and the ribaldry employed by them even against their Buddhist brethren, cast into the shade those of Christian sectarians in their fiercest controversies.

  29. For ten years, the war between Nobunaga and the Shin sectarians kept the country in disorder.

  30. But the sectarians of Ohio were resolved on the passage of this bill.

  31. In this circle symbolic services, patterned after the ritual of the Sabbatians, were secretly held, and, as rumor had it, the sectarians performed dances before a wooden image of Sabbatai Zevi.

  32. The sectarians owned to having committed acts which were subversive not only of the Jewish religion but also of the fundamental principles of morality and chastity.

  33. This declaration aroused in Bishop Dembovski the hope of converting the sectarians to Christianity, notwithstanding the fact that by the "Messianic Redeemer" they understood Sabbatai Zevi, or his reincarnation, Jacob Frank.

  34. At that critical juncture the sectarians decided to recall Jacob Frank, their leader, from Turkey.

  35. The Polish rabbis rejoiced in the conversion of the sectarians to Catholicism, since it rid the Jewish people of dangerous heretics.

  36. The sectarians advanced seven theses as a basis for discussion.

  37. When the disputation was over, the sectarians were called upon to prove their devotion to Christianity by immediate action.

  38. Intercourse between the Orthodox inhabitants and the sectarians is to be thwarted in every possible manner.

  39. The sectarians witnessed their revenge on their persecutors and triumphed.

  40. Many sectarians publicly confessed their sins, and submitted to severe penances.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sectarians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.