KARAITES

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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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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