Karaites

Definitions of Karaites
  1. noun
    a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century
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    religious order, religious sect, sect
    a subdivision of a larger religious group
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