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Definition of Manichaeanism

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Manichaeanism

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of Manichaeism) ¹

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Literary usage of Manichaeanism

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

1. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"... manichaeanism in Kirch, n. 294. An Nadim, Fihrist. (Translation after Kessler, Mani, 1889.) The Fihrist, ie. Catalogue, is a sort of history of ..."

2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1854)
"602), a fact which undoubtedly, if well established, would go far to indicate an origin from manichaeanism, namely, that this party celebrated the ..."

3. Evenings with the skeptics; or, Free discussion on free thinkers by John Owen (1881)
"nineteenth to his twenty-eighth year Augustine was an earnest and sedulous, if not enthusiastic, disciple of manichaeanism. During this period he changed ..."

4. The Moral Ideal: A Historic Study by Julia Wedgwood (1907)
"Manichaeans were persecuted, but manichaeanism prevailed. Christians would not allow that the Fall was a superhuman event anterior to the Creation, ..."

5. Constantine the Great: The Reorganisation of the Empire and the Triumph of by John Benjamin Firth (1905)
"Moreover, as the edict points out, this manichaeanism came from Persia, ... manichaeanism was a device of the enemy ; it must be poison, therefore, ..."

6. A Church History by Christopher Wordsworth (1887)
"Augustine's resistance to manichaeanism was more effectual on account of his intimate acquaintance with it and its partisans. ..."

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