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Nonsectarian   Listen
adjective
nonsectarian  adj.  Not restricted to one sect or school or party; as, religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere; public funding is restricted to nonsectarian colleges. Opposite of sectarian. (Narrower terms: ecumenic, oecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenical; interchurch, interdenominational; nondenominational; undenominational, unsectarian)






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"Nonsectarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... request of Indians to whom money was due as a matter of right, under a treaty, for the payment of such money by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the support of Indian Catholic schools.[36] In 1930 the use of public funds to furnish nonsectarian textbooks to pupils in parochial schools of Louisiana was sustained,[37] and in 1947, as we have seen, the case of public funds for the transportation of pupils attending such schools in New Jersey.[38] In the former of these cases the Court cited the State's interest in secular education ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin



Words linked to "Nonsectarian" :   nondenominational, oecumenic, ecumenical, undenominational, sectarian, ecumenic



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