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Definition of Bahai

1. Adjective. Of or relating to Bahaism.

Definition of Bahai

1. n. A member of the sect of the Babis consisting of the adherents of Baha (Mirza Husain Ali, entitled "Baha 'u 'llah," or, "the Splendor of God"), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.

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Literary usage of Bahai

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Power of Prayer: Being a Selection of Walker Trust Essays, with a Study by William Paterson Paterson, David Russell (1920)
"We shall conclude this brief selection of Bahai prayers with a beautiful supplication ... Readers desiring further information about the Bahai movement are ..."

2. Compilation of the Holy Utterances of Bahaʻoʼllah and Abdul Baha: Concerning by Baháʼuʼlláh, ʻAbduʼl-Bahá (1918)
"The Bahai Cause includes questions of economic and social conditions, ... The Bahai spirit is, that in order to establish a better economic and social ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1873)
"Reme;, Charles Mason The Bahai revelation and reconstruction; a gen- tral brief treatise upon the ... The new day; the Bahai revelation, a brief state- ..."

4. Tales of the Southern Border by Charles Wilkins Webber (1853)
"But he went instantly to work and equipped a troop of the vagabond braggadocio Mexicans about Bahai, and started it off under the command of a trusted ..."

5. Travels in Africa During the Years 1875[-1886] by Wilhelm Junker (1892)
"Thu> we had to pass two nights in the wretched hovels of the A-Kahle on the narrow tongue of land between the Mansa and Bahai. The timid inmates had taken ..."

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