English-Portuguese translations for sectarian

• sectário
  Só os fracos são sectários e se viram para si mesmos. It is only the weak who are sectarian and who are turned in on themselves.
  Lamento os ataques sectários de que cada uma delas tem sido vítima nestes últimos dias.I deplore the sectarian attacks to which each of them have been subjected in recent days.
  Assim, infelizmente, foram demasiadas vezes desviados e utilizados para fins sectários e por vezes totalitários.Sadly, we have all too often also seen them diverted and used for sectarian and sometimes totalitarian purposes.

Definition of sectarian

• Of, or relating to a sect
• Dogmatic or partisan
• Bigoted
• A member of a sect

Examples

• We were discussing solutions to the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias.

Related words

• sectarianism
• nonsectarian
• nonsectarianism
• sectarianly