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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A member of the sect of the Babis consisting of the adherents of Baha (Mirza Husain Ali, entitled “Baha 'u 'llah,” or, “the Splendor of God”), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.

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  • noun a teacher of or believer in Bahaism
  • adjective of or relating to Bahaism

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Examples

  • (See news. bahai.org and iran. bahai.us for more.)

    Brian D. Lepard: Was the Sentencing of Iranian Bahá'í Leaders the Result of Longstanding Religious Prejudice? Brian D. Lepard 2010

  • February 10, 2008 at 5:22 am wudden tat be Universlist Kitteh or bahai kitteh?

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  • Part 10/12 of 'Your World IS Changing' ~ All you need to know is that the primary goal behind this New World Order is (always was) to eventually end all religions and to install a global one world religion (bahai) (maitreya) based on "scientific" unproven theories that scientists are in consensus with but disputed by many other modern

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • Part 10/12 of 'Your World IS Changing' ~ All you need to know is that the primary goal behind this New World Order is (always was) to eventually end all religions and to install a global one world religion (bahai) (maitreya) based on

    WN.com - Articles related to Chavez says new forex rate "not far" above 4.3/dlr 2010

  • All you need to know is that the primary goal behind this New World Order is (always was) to eventually end all religions and to install a global one world religion (bahai) (maitreya) based on "scientific" unproven theories that scientists are in consensus with but disputed by many other modern

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • Part 10/12 of 'Your World IS Changing' ~ All you need to know is that the primary goal behind this New World Order is (always was) to eventually end all religions and to install a global one world religion (bahai) (maitreya) based on

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • All you need to know is that the primary goal behind this New World Order is (always was) to eventually end all religions and to install a global one world religion (bahai) (maitreya) based on "scientific" unproven theories that scientists are in consensus with but disputed by many other modern & eminent scientists: * theory of evolution * theory of man-made global warming * theory of neurological chemical imbalance

    WN.com - Articles related to Chavez says new forex rate "not far" above 4.3/dlr 2010

  • All you need to know is that the primary goal behind this New World Order is (always was) to eventually end all religions and to install a global one world religion (bahai) (maitreya) based on "scientific" unproven theories that scientists are in consensus with but disputed by many other modern

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • Part 10/12 of 'Your World IS Changing' ~ All you need to know is that the primary goal behind this New World Order is (always was) to eventually end all religions and to install a global one world religion (bahai) (maitreya) based on

    WN.com - Articles related to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez seeks $1 billion development loan 2010

  • All you need to know is that the primary goal behind this New World Order is (always was) to eventually end all religions and to install a global one world religion (bahai) (maitreya) based on "scientific" unproven theories that scientists are in consensus with but disputed by many other modern

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

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