multisectarian
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multisectarian (comparative more multisectarian, superlative most multisectarian)
- Composed of multiple sects; pertaining to sectarianism regarding multiple sects.
- 1972, Northern Ireland: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, February 28 and 29 and March 1, 1972, publ. United States Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., pg. 546:
- [...] and that from God springs the laws of morality (a simpler and better term than "religion" in these multisectarian days, when the term too often means a splitting of straws over the veriest trifles)
- 1944, Ralph Barton Perry, Puritanism and Democracy, Vanguard Press, page 346:
- The political sequel to Separatism is the neutral state presiding over a multisectarian society.
- 2008, Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 196:
- Hundreds of Palestinians have been forced to leave — 10 percent of Bethlehem's Christian population has emigrated in the past few years alone, which has affected the multisectarian social fabric of the city where Christ was born.
- 1972, Northern Ireland: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, February 28 and 29 and March 1, 1972, publ. United States Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., pg. 546: