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English noun: Karaites

1. Karaites (group) 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


Broader (hypernym)religious order, religious sect, sect









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