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What does sectarianism mean?

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Noun
  1. Rigid adherence to a particular sect, denomination, ideology, or party.
  2. (politics) A political system in which power is shared among religious sects based on a constitutional formula distributing public offices among these sects
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There are 170 miles and an abyss of sectarianism separating Glasgow and Inverness.
The song projects lofty human ideals and nothing of religious sectarianism or exclusivism.
He should seize this opportunity to introduce the subject of sectarianism to the school curricula.
It is up to all of us to demonstrate our abhorrence of sectarianism, discrimination and racism.
I also have first-hand experience of the repercussions that follow when you make a stand against sectarianism.
The political dynamic of the peace process itself has a proportionally inverse impact on the wide spectrum of unionist sectarianism.

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