sect

Preposition: of

• Buddhism: Amida is a central figure in the ' Pure Land ' sects of Buddhism.
• Christianity: Northern Ireland stands as a striking example of the hatred between two sects of Christianity.
• Pharisee: Now it was just to such homes that the sect of the Pharisees owed their origin.

Converse of object

• found: Not fifty years pass before there are twenty sects founded upon the same book.
• join: The man did not want to be named for fear of reprisals on his son, who joined the sect eight years ago.
• know: Fourteen were immediately baptized, including a leading Swiss figure in an internationally known sect.
• become: We must not become a sect ' or club whose " fruit " is of only one tree.
• lead: Jesus led the sect of Essenes, the Nazarenes, who believed the End Time had come.
• call: A few people catching that vision could be called a sect.

Adjective modifier

• Gnostic: It was the Gnostic sects that believed in " secret " revelations.
• apocalyptic: They were both apocalyptic sects, which despised Roman occupation.
• confessional: The left regards Marxism as adequate for a defining credo of some confessional sect.

Modifies a noun

ion: Sect ion 1: Outline of the rights What are the rights?

Noun used with modifier

• non-conformist: There then followed a mass round-up of all members of non-conformist sects.
• Buddhist: He had also been a leader in a reformed Buddhist sect.
• minority: Christianity is an irrelevant minority sect, they argue.