Religious_sectWordNet Explorer
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a subdivision of a larger religious group
an institution to express belief in a divine power
a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns)
a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)
a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
an orthodox Anabaptist sect separated from the Mennonites in late 17th century; settled chiefly in southeastern Pennsylvania
a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century