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[ adjective ] distributed or spread over a considerable extent
Synonyms Examples "has ties with many widely dispersed friends" "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe" Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)Cleaned cloth must be protected against the redeposition of dispersed soil . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)These groups have varied widely from mere families , primitive , totemic groups , and small modern cults and sects , to the memberships of great denominations , and great , widely dispersed world religions . The unifying effect of religion is also brought_out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more_or_less cohesive cultural units , with religion as the dominant bond , even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized . Related terms |
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