polysectarian

comparative more polysectarian · superlative most polysectarian

1. Composed of many sects.

   The reason for this are to be found in the polysectarian nature of Lebanon with the largest sect being a minority of the total population.

   1974, Pakistan Horizon, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, v.27, pg. 19

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   In time it became as impossible for polyglot and polysectarian America to provide a common religious standard for her public schools as for her Army or her railways.

   1919, The Dublin Review, Ed. Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, publ. W. Spooner, v.165, pg. 151

   However, Byzantium, like the Roman Empire, remained a polyglot, multinational and polysectarian state during the greater part of its existence.

   2007, George Mousourakis, A Legal History of Rome, →ISBN, page 156