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KARAITES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Karaites" is a kind of...):
religious order; religious sect; sect (a subdivision of a larger religious group)
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