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mahdism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mahdism has 1 sense
- mahdism(n = noun.cognition) Array - belief in the appearance of the Mahdi; devotion to a Mahdi; Array is a kind of islam, islamism, mohammedanism, muhammadanism, muslimism
Derived forms noun mahdi1, noun mahdist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
mahdism, n.
Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title.
"Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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