Manichaeanism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Manichaeism. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

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