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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun According to the Book of Mormon, a descendant of Laman, the son of Lehi, a righteous Jew of the tribe of Joseph, who fled with his sons from the destruction of Jerusalem to America. Because of their wickedness the Lamanites lost their fair skin, sank into barbarism, and became the red Indians.
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