Fundamentalism, in common speech, refers loosely to a common spirit in strict Protestant sects.

In this strict sect, the result is rumspringa - "running around" in Pennsylvania Dutch.

She sports a high-riding mini-skirt - which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect.

The "lacto-ovo vegetarians" are willing to take milk, eggs, and cheese, but stricter sects regard these foods as forms of meat.

The stories depicted the "Auld Lichts", a strict religious sect that his grandfather had once belonged to.

On the other hand, the Essenes did not recognize the Temple either and they were agreed to be one of the purest and strictest sects.

The Urracht is a strict sect, but fair.

In general, it is the stricter sects and congregations that are growing.

They had nothing on which to live but faith and the code of their strict sect that bound them with undying loyalty to each other.

His other interest, several people said, was the local mosque that adheres to Wahhabism, the strict sect followed by many militants.