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Kharijite

[kahr-uh-jahyt]

Kha·ri·jite

[kahr-uh-jahyt]
noun Islam.
a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.

Origin:
< Arabic khārij(ī) dissenter + -ite1
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Kharijite is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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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