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marcionism

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Mar⋅cion⋅ism

  [mahr-shuh-niz-uhm]
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–noun
the doctrines and principles of the Marcionites.
Origin:
1880–85; Marcion + -ism
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Mar·cion·ism   (mär'shə-nĭz'əm)   
n.  A Christian heresy of the second and third centuries A.D. that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human.

[After Marcion (died c. A.D. 160), Pontic merchant and heretic in Rome.]
Mar'cion·ite' (-shə-nīt') n.
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