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Segregate   Listen
adjective
Segregate  adj.  
1.
Separate; select.
2.
(Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind.





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"Segregate" Quotes from Famous Books



... the parson to the priest. I dislike the idea of a priestly caste, an ecclesiastical tradition, a body of people who have the administering of mysterious spiritual secrets. I want to bring religion home to ordinary people, not to segregate it. I would rather have in every parish a wise and kindly man with the same interests as his neighbours, but with a good simple standard of virtuous and brotherly living, than a man endowed with ...
— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson
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... in ancient Japan was born under considerable difficulties: its mother had to segregate herself in a parturition hut (ubuya), whence even light was excluded and where she was cut off from all attendance. This strange custom was an outcome of the Shinto canon of purity. Soon after birth, a child received from its mother a name generally ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi
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Words linked to "Segregate" :   discriminate, mortal, person, divide, someone, insulate, individual, part, single out


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