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Cainite

[ key-nahyt ]

noun

  1. a member of a Gnostic sect that exalted Cain and regarded the God of the Old Testament as responsible for evil.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cainite1

< Medieval Latin Cainīta ( cain, -ite 1; compare Late Latin Caiānus with same sense)

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Example Sentences

In the meantime the holy men bewailed his wretched lot, as if he had been slain by the Cainite hypocrites.

This faith the other church, the Cainite church, not only has not, but ever persecutes it where she finds it.

But the Cainite wrath fires and distorts the eyes, scowls the brow, swells the cheeks with rage, and arms the hands.

Thus the division between the Cainite and Sethite races early became accentuated by a sectarian distinction as well.

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