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Nonsectarian   /nˌɑnsɛktˈɛriən/   Listen
Nonsectarian

adjective
1.
Not restricted to one sect or school or party.  Synonym: unsectarian.  "Nonsectarian colleges" , "A wide and unsectarian interest in religion"  Antonym: sectarian.






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"Nonsectarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... request of Indians to whom money was due as a matter of right, under a treaty, for the payment of such money by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the support of Indian Catholic schools.[36] In 1930 the use of public funds to furnish nonsectarian textbooks to pupils in parochial schools of Louisiana was sustained,[37] and in 1947, as we have seen, the case of public funds for the transportation of pupils attending such schools in New Jersey.[38] In the former of these cases the Court cited the State's interest in secular education ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... nonpolitical and nonsectarian. It aims to unite the different parts of the Imperial Federation by intellectual and moral bonds. It appeals to the whole body of the people of the Empire, but it deals especially with the children in the schools. It endeavors ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery



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