Sectarianism vs Bisectarian - What's the difference?
sectarianism | bisectarian |
Rigid adherence to a particular sect, party or denomination.
Pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects.
* 1972 , Northern Ireland: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session , February 28 and 29 and March 1, 1972, publ. United States Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., pg. 546:
* 1991 , Leila Tarazi Fawaz, Fida Nasrallah, and Nadim Shehadi, State and Society in Lebanon , publ. Centre for Lebanese Studies, Tufts University, ISBN 9781870552233, pg. 31:
* 2006 , Bing West, "What Lies Ahead" in "Handing Off a War, Dispatches From Iraq," Slate ,
As a noun sectarianism
is rigid adherence to a particular sect, party or denomination.As an adjective bisectarian is
pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects.sectarianism
English
(wikipedia sectarianism)Noun
(en noun)- They were discussing sectarianism between Shias and Sunnis.
Anagrams
* *bisectarian
English
Alternative forms
* bi-sectarianAdjective
(en adjective)- The Northern Ireland Labor Party, bisectarian and from 1945 committed to partition, has been an exception to the opposition's typical character.
- The bisectarian prism tended not only to relegate to irrelevance the concerns and interests of the other sects, but also to cause the Sunni and Maronite leaders only too aware of one another, tended by the same token to be exclusivist and somehow to abolish from view the existence of other sects, Christian and Muslim alike.
May 25, 2006:
- With U.S. forces drawing down and a bisectarian government emerging in Baghdad, the "mainstream" rejectionists have lost their rationale.