bisectarian

== English == === Alternative forms === bi-sectarian === Etymology === From bi- +‎ sectarian. === Adjective === bisectarian (comparative more bisectarian, superlative most bisectarian) Pertaining to sectarianism regarding exactly two sects. 1972, Northern Ireland: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, February 28 and 29 and March 1, 1972, publ. United States Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., pg. 546: The Northern Ireland Labor Party, bisectarian and from 1945 committed to partition, has been an exception to the opposition's typical character. 2006, Bing West, "What Lies Ahead" in "Handing Off a War, Dispatches From Iraq," Slate, May 25, 2006: With U.S. forces drawing down and a bisectarian government emerging in Baghdad, the "mainstream" rejectionists have lost their rationale.