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Meaning: [sect in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sect/). - Qu'est-ce qu'une **secte** religieuse ? What is a religious **sect**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Jesse · checked, community translation · [\#3788110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3788110) [\#1200971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1200971)) - Voilà, en dehors et au-dessus de quelques **sectes** qui s'égaraient, ce que disait le socialisme; voilà ce qu'il cherchait dans les faits, voilà ce qu'il ébauchait dans les esprits. This is what socialism said outside and above a few **sects** which have gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched out in minds. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18309) - Mais nous voudrions apprendre de toi ce que tu penses, car nous savons que cette **secte** rencontre partout de l’opposition. But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this **sect**, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 28:22) - Je ne dis pas que la scientologie est une **secte** dangereuse. I do not say that scientology is a dangerous **sect**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1603010) - Câmpul Moșilor nr. 5, **sect**. Campul Mosilor nr. 5, **sect**. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3162099) ## cult Used about 1 838 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · UN documents ≈ 1 826). Meaning: [cult in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cult/). - Ils sont une **secte**. They're a **cult**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#10323054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10323054) [\#10323789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10323789)) - Le Falun Gong est une **secte**. Falun Gong is a **cult** organization. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 20415513) - Tom était dans une **secte**. Tom was in a **cult**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#11747912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11747912) [\#11747927](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11747927)) - Classification des Frères de Plymouth comme < < **secte** > > dans un rapport parlementaire Classification of the Plymouth Brethren as a " **cult** " in a parliamentary report ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 19916106) - Il est le gourou d'une **secte**. He is a **cult** leader. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and valhentai · checked, community translation · [\#10598495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10598495) [\#8900574](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8900574)) ## religious Used about 247 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 243). Forms: religion, religious. Meaning: [religious in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/religious/). - Cela signifierait consentir aux publications et apparences publiques des groupes fascistes et **sectes** religieuses, interdire les centres éducatifs et caritatifs gérés par des églises dans leurs communautés, ce qui entraverait sérieusement l'action sociale, et cela laisserait la porte ouverte à la discrimination à l'encontre des chrétiens. It would mean consenting to the publications and public appearances of fascist groups and **religious** cults, a ban on educational and charitable centres run by churches in their communities, which would seriously hamper social action, and it would open up broader possibilities for discrimination against Christians. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1246952) - Il a précisé qu ' une législation stricte concernant les groupes religieux avait été adoptée dans l ' État partie suite à plusieurs suicides de membres de **sectes**. He stated that strict legislation on **religious** groups was introduced in the State party following several suicides of members of cults. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14688611) - Il me semble qu' il s' agit là d' une manifestation extrêmement dangereuse, alors que mon pays est celui où la lutte contre les **sectes** a marqué des points très significatifs et dont, je crois, l' Europe continue à avoir besoin de s' inspirer, c' est-à-dire des valeurs de laïcité, de tolérance, mais de vraie tolérance, non pas celle pratiquée par les **sectes**. I think this is an extremely dangerous demonstration, given that France is a country in which the fight against **religious** cults has had some very significant successes. Europe still needs to be inspired by such successes, informed as they are by the values of secularism and tolerance, by which I mean true tolerance and not that practised by religious cults. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 89801) - 446. La Constitution protège à l ' article 20 le droit accordé à chaque confession et à ses **sectes** de créer, d ' entretenir et de diriger leurs propres institutions religieuses. The right of each **religious** community to establish, maintain and manage its religious institutions is protected by article 20 of the Constitution. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10494039) - Nous ne pouvons pas imaginer que, pour que les marchés fonctionnent bien, la règle de la transparence soit la règle essentielle et nous, les législateurs, refuser de nous l'appliquer, alors même que nous savons très bien que, dans notre processus législatif même - et je dis cela à destination du précédent orateur - nos relations avec des interlocuteurs extérieurs, qu'il s'agisse de groupes de pression mais aussi de **sectes** - je dis ça pour M. Friedrich - sont absolument déterminantes dans notre processus législatif original européen. It is impossible to imagine the markets functioning properly with transparency being anything other than the fundamental rule. We, the legislators, must apply that rule to ourselves, particularly as we know all too well that in our legislative process - and I say this to the previous speaker - our relations with external representatives, be they pressure groups or **religious** organisations - and that is directed at Mr Friedrich - play a decisive role in our European legislative process. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1074589) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Méfiez-vous des **sectes** ! Do not trust cults! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11671535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11671535) [\#8980327](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8980327)) - car il faut qu’il y ait aussi des **sectes** parmi vous, afin que ceux qui sont approuvés soient reconnus comme tels au milieu de vous. For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 11:19) - l’idolâtrie, la magie, les inimitiés, les querelles, les jalousies, les animosités, les disputes, les divisions, les **sectes**, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 5:20) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. 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