Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Unsectarian   Listen
Unsectarian

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






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Unsectarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... go this morning?" asked George. "There is a very good minister close by at the church, and another equally good at the chapel. My principles are unsectarian, and I do not mind where ...
— Life in London • Edwin Hodder

... education. They stand firm and staunch on these two principles still. But they are the sternest and strongest opponents of Home Rule, and their reason is because Home Rule spells for Ireland a new religious ascendency and the destruction of the unsectarian ...
— Against Home Rule (1912) - The Case for the Union • Various

... much less success crowned other agencies for meeting the ever-increasing need for religious knowledge, which multiply and grow in number and in power. Witness, among many that might be named, the continuous development of the Sunday School system and the immensely extended operations of the unsectarian Bible Society. ...
— Great Britain and Her Queen • Anne E. Keeling

... Church movement, the attempts to liberalize Christianity, to pour its old wine into new bottles, to make it unsectarian and undogmatic, to find compromises between theology and science, found no favour in Leslie Stephen's eyes, and he criticized all this with a certain contempt. There was a controversy about the efficacy of prayer. Is it reasonable, for instance, to pray for rain? Here ...
— A History of Freedom of Thought • John Bagnell Bury



Words linked to "Unsectarian" :   ecumenical, ecumenic, nonsectarian, sectarian, undenominational, interdenominational, oecumenical, interchurch, nondenominational, oecumenic



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org