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RELATED WORDS : amish sect religious religious belief religious ceremony religious cult religious doctrine religious festival religious holiday religious leader religious movement religious music religious mystic religious mysticism religious offering religious order religious orientation religious outcast religious person religious residence religious right religious rite religious ritual religious school religious service religious society of friends religious song religious text religious trance religious writing sect

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Noun religious sect has 1 sense

• religious sect(n = noun.group) religious order, sect - a subdivision of a larger religious group; Array
has particulars: sisterhood, albigenses, cathari, cathars, high anglican church, high church, abecedarian, amish sect, karaites, shia, shiah, shiah islam, sunni, sunni islam, shivaism, sivaism, saktism, shaktism, vaishnavism, vaisnavism, haredi, hare krishna, international society for krishna consciousness, iskcon, jainism, taoism, kokka, kokka shinto, shua, shuha shinto, brethren, monastic order, order, quakers, religious society of friends, society of friends, shakers, united society of believers in christ's second appearing, vaudois, waldenses, zurvanism
is a kind of faith, organized religion, religion
has parts: convent

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religious sect

Theology

N theology (natural and revealed), theogony, theosophy, divinity, hagiology, hagiography, Caucasian mystery, monotheism, religion, religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination, creed, article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith, theologue, theologian, scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist, the Fathers, theological, religious, denominational, sectarian.

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