sect
noun
[ sɛkt ]
• a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong.
Similar:
(religious) cult,
religious group,
faith community,
denomination,
persuasion,
religious order,
splinter group,
faction,
schism,
heretical movement,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French secte or Latin secta, literally ‘following’, hence ‘faction, party’, from the stem of sequi ‘follow’.
sect.
abbreviation
• section.
