Definition of "religious sect" [religious sect]

• A subdivision of a larger religious group (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Vince Masuoka became convinced that he could provide Deborah with the key to the whole matter by finding out which bizarre religious sect was responsible."
• "The Amish are a religious sect that began in Switzerland during the 1690s when the followers of Jakob Ammann hence the name “Amish” split off from existing Christian religions."
• "For a site he bought from a religious sect of Germans known as Rappites a tract of thirty thousand acres on the banks of the Wabash in Posey County, Indiana."