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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun According to the Book of Mormon, one of the descendants of Nephi, who, with his brothers and his father Lehi, of the tribe of Joseph, fled from Jerusalem to America.
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The Chinese put an immensely high value upon it, and the wish to procure nephite is said often to have determined their politics, to have caused wars, and impressed its stamp on treaties of peace concluded between millions.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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