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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

At first he was regarded by his "pastors and masters" as a mere wilful, noisy, praying sectary.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies

The Puritan had appropriated one of De Noyan's hats, broad of brim, and so ample of crown the high peaked head of the worthy sectary was almost lost within its capacious interior.

From Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France by Randall Parrish

What booted the protection of an insignificant sectary to him? thought the Shah-in-Shah, and tossed the letter into the Euphrates.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

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

These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

However Christianity made a great progress in the world, and has been very much divided into sectaries, by the causes previously assigned.

From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Ethan Allen

I imagine, Madam, that what I have just stated will suffice to show you what opinion you ought to entertain respecting the founder of Christianity and his first sectaries.

From Letters To Eugenia Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach


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