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sectary

[sek-tuh-ree] / ˈsɛk tə ri /




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The latter was commissioned by the home sectary and Sir Ken.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

An ex-senior adviser recalled being sent a document about a reform agenda and a permanent sectary ordering them to "just bin it immediately".

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023

His other works—Scenes of light comedy in them—Portraits of the upstart, of the sectary, &c.

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand

He was a Puritan, with all the faults and virtues of a sectary.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman

Do we find that He assumed the tone of an enthusiast or ambitious sectary?

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge

Salon called and emailed the offices of sectaries Kerry and Carter, as well as the Departments of State and Defense, multiple times with requests for comment.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2016

Her father gets his graceful due: To truth a shield, to right a wall, To sectaries a whip and maul.

From Time Magazine Archive

These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the hesitation as to the treatment of heretics which marked the eleventh and twelfth centuries disappeared in the thirteenth, when the Church was involved in mortal struggle with the sectaries.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

It was composed of thirty members, chosen with great care from among the most violent sectaries of the Assembly.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham


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