Sectaries Synonyms

One zealously devoted to a religion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. votaries
  2. fanatics
  3. enthusiasts
  4. devotees
  5. zealots
A person who dissents from the doctrine of an established church
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. separatists
  2. nonconformists
  3. heretics
  4. dissidents
  5. dissenters

Words Related to Sectaries

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Sectaries Sentence Examples

  • In g06 the court at Bagdad learned that these sectaries had gained almost all Yemen and were threatening Mecca and Medina.

  • Meanwhile in the Netherlands the sectaries had been making rapid headway in spite of the persecution.

  • Margaret of Parma meanwhile, with the aid of a considerable body of German mercenaries, had inflicted exemplary punishment upon the iconoclasts and Calvinist sectaries.

  • Bishop Williams, a kinsman of Cromwell's, relates at this time that he was "a common spokesman for sectaries, and maintained their part with great stubbornness"; and his earliest extant letter (in 1635) is an appeal for subscriptions for a puritan lecturer.

  • He was one of the moderate party who desired an accommodation with the king, and was opposed to Cromwell's sectaries.

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