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-gnosis
a combining form meaning “knowledge,” used in the formation of compound words: prognosis.
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n , pl -ses | |
| supposedly revealed knowledge of various spiritual truths, esp that said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics | |
| [C18: ultimately from Greek: knowledge, from gignōskein to know] | |
| -gnosis | |
| —n combining form | |
| (esp in medicine) recognition or knowledge: prognosis; diagnosis | |
| [via Latin from Greek: | |
| -gnostic | |
| —adj combining form | |
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