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   sect

   /sɛkt/

   noun

   • 1. a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong.
   • ▪ a group that has separated from an established Church; a nonconformist Church: "two of the older sects—the Congregationalists and the Baptists—were able to increase their membership dramatically"
   • ▪ a philosophical or political group, especially one regarded as extreme or dangerous: "a sect of anarchists"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French secte or Latin secta, literally ‘following’, hence ‘faction, party’, from the stem of sequi ‘follow’.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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