What is the difference between scion and sect?
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A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
The heir to a throne.
A guardian.
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 scion and sect
is that scion is a descendant, especially a first-generation descendant while sect is an offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.scion
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Alternative forms
* ** *** sioun *** syoun ** *** syon ** *** sien *** sion *** syen *** syon ** *** seyon *** sien *** syen * ** *** cyun ** *** cion ** *** cien *** cion *** cyen *** cyon ** *** cion (now chiefly in botanical senses) * ** *** science *** scyence *** siens *** sient ** *** cions *** cyence *** cyens *** cyons *** sciance *** science *** scient *** sience *** siens *** sient * ** *** scyon ** *** scion *** scioun ** *** scion ** *** scien *** scion *** scyen ** *** scion *** scyon ** *** scion (standard spelling)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* '>citation * 1966 , , An Early Passover , Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24 *: It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion. * 1986 , , Penguin, paperback edition, page 72 *: He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?References
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Noun
(en noun)- A religious sect .