postsectarian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
After or beyond sects or sectarianism, especially as a reaction to sectarianism.
noun
An adherent of postsectarian philosophy.
Example Sentences
- "This development is to be seen in the context of the current popularity of describing aspects of the present scene as "post" something—post-Christian, post-Constantinian, post-Protestant, postliberal, postmodern, postsectarian, postcommunist, not to mention the almost sacred posts of the biblical scholars."
- "For if the core members of the Vietnam Lobby stood for anything in the 1950s, it was a vision of a postsectarian world whose embrace of the "culture concept" ensured universal tolerance and human freedom, the veritable free marketplace of ideas for which expansive Americans had so long yearned."
- "Indeed, the field reads like postsectarian, postpartisan Australia's collective sigh of relief at having left behind what Robert Alford, in 1963, called our 'politics of class and religion'."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English sectarian English postsectarian From post- + sectarian.
Inflected Forms
more postsectarian (comparative)
most postsectarian (superlative)
post-sectarian (alternative)
postsectarians (plural)