What is the difference between political and sect?
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Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
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Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
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(label) Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral or other party political) calculation.
Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority.
(label) Interested in politics.
A political agent or officer.
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a publication centred around politics
An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.
A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
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(obsolete) A cutting; a scion.
As nouns the difference between political and sect
is that political is a political agent or officer while sect is an offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.As an adjective political
is concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.political
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Alternative forms
* politicall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
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Synonyms
* politicAntonyms
* nonpolitical, non-politicalDerived terms
* politicality * politically * political agent * political animal * political arithmetic * political asylum * political economy * political football * politicalness * political party * political prisoner * party political * politically correct * sociopoliticalNoun
(en noun)- One such officer was Count Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political , who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle his country's scores with the British.
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*sect
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(en noun)- A religious sect .
