counter-sectarian

English

Alternative forms

  • countersectarian (rare)

Etymology

From counter- +‎ sectarian.

Adjective

counter-sectarian (comparative more counter-sectarian, superlative most counter-sectarian)

  1. (rare) anti-sectarian [19th c.]
    • 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[1], New York: Protestant Episcopal Press, page 23:
      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.
    • 2007 September 6, Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947‎[2], Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 653:
      The ministry assembled lists of sectarian publications, subsidized the dissemination of counter-sectarian texts and closely monitored religious groups and associations of all kinds.
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