英和和英

語源

counter- +‎ sectarian

形容詞

counter-sectarian (comparative more counter-sectarian, superlative most counter-sectarian)

1. (rare) anti-sectarian [19th c.]
   • 1833 October 4, Benjamin T. Onderdonk, Journal of the Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York‎, New York: Protestant Episcopal Press, page 23:

     The exercises on that occasion, however, I was happy to be informed, were well calculated to strengthen the claims of that respectable institution on public patronage—claims which, from its separation from counter-sectarian influence, ought to be peculiarly owned by the members of our Communion.

   • 2007 September 6, Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947‎, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 653:

     The ministry assembled lists of sectarian publications, subsidized the dissemination of counter-sectarian texts and closely monitored religious groups and associations of all kinds.