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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism. His religious movement, a rival to early Christianity, professed that the world is a fusion of the equal but opposite forces of good and evil.

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  • proper noun a peninsular on the Peloponnese in Greece
  • proper noun founder of Manichaeism

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From Greek Μάνη f.  (Máni)

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