What does bisectarian mean?
Bisectarian means Pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects..
The Northern Ireland Labor Party, bisectarian and from 1945 committed to partition, has been an exception to the opposition's typical character.
With U.S. forces drawing down and a bisectarian government emerging in Baghdad, the "mainstream" rejectionists have lost their rationale.
The bisectarian prism tended not only to relegate to irrelevance the concerns and interests of the other sects, but also to cause the Sunni and Maronite leaders only too aware of one another, tended by the same token to be exclusivist and somehow to abolish from view the existence of other sects, Christian and Muslim alike.
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Bisectarian means Pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects..
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The Northern Ireland Labor Party, bisectarian and from 1945 committed to partition, has been an exception to the opposition's typical character.
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