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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   The belief that the ancient Phoenician civilization was the primary ethnic and cultural foundation of the modern Lebanese people, as opposed to later Arab immigration.
2. 2
   An idiom from the Phoenician language.

Etymology

From Phoenician + -ism.

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