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manichaeanism
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Noun manichaeanism has 1 sense
- manichaeanism(n = noun.cognition) manichaeism - a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000; Array is a kind of faith, religion, religious belief
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