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(Entry 1 of 3)
- there are people on both the left and the right who have staked out unyielding sectarian positions in this debate
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- dogmatic
- (also dogmatical),
- opinionated,
- opinionative
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sectarian
noun (1)Synonyms & Antonyms of sectarian (Entry 2 of 3)
- charged that the work of Congress has been stymied by sectarians who are indifferent to reason and intolerant of compromise
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- bigot,
- dogmatist,
- dogmatizer,
- partisan
- (also partizan)
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sectarianism
noun (2)Synonyms & Antonyms of sectarianism (Entry 3 of 3)
- an ideological sectarianism that prevented the political party from ever being anything more than a fringe group
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