nonsectarian
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of nonsectarian
Example Sentences
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It has been understood those schools are both public and “nonsectarian,” or not religious.
From Los Angeles Times
By the 1930s, though, the world was moving into a nonsectarian Palisades — specifically, many intellectual refugees from Nazi-menaced Europe.
From Los Angeles Times
For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.
From Los Angeles Times
By the 1970s, however, Christian private schools outnumbered the nonsectarian ones, which inspired political activism among Christian evangelists who had shown little political interest previously.
From Los Angeles Times
“It’s not an easy needle to thread, to be a nonsectarian institution, clearly founded by people with evangelical principles and worldviews.”
From Washington Times
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