counter-sectarian

comparative more counter-sectarian · superlative most counter-sectarian · alternative rare countersectarian

1. rareanti-sectarianFirst known use 19th c.

   The ministry assembled lists of sectarian publications, subsidized the dissemination of counter-sectarian texts and closely monitored religious groups and associations of all kinds.

   2007 September 6, Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 653

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   The exercises on that occasion, however, I was happy to be informed, were well calculated to strengthen the claims of that respectable institution on public patronage—claims which, from its separation from counter-sectarian influence, ought to be peculiarly owned by the members of our Communion.

   1833 October 4, Benjamin T. Onderdonk, Journal of the Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York, New York: Protestant Episcopal Press, page 23