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Noun

1. 1
   plural of Karaite form-of, plural
2. 2
   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 wordnet

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"Apart from the Karaites, every Jew is a Pharisee."

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