Meaning & use
Subsect
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A smaller group or division within a larger sect or religious or ideological movement.
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The subsect split off after a disagreement over ritual practices.
Scholars traced the beliefs of the small subsect back to a 19th-century reform movement.
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Subsect is used mainly in religious studies and sociology to describe a splinter group that still shares most beliefs with its parent sect.
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