sect
/sekt/ n [C]Definition
› a religious group with beliefs that make it different from a larger or more established religion it has separated from: a Christian sect › A sect is also a small group of people who share a particular set of political beliefs.
(Definition of sect n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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