gnosis

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Along with Gnostics (from the Greek word "gnosis" meaning knowledge) they were persecuted, anathematised and systematically and progressively oppressed.

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  1. noun Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, an esoteric form of knowledge sought by the Gnostics.

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  • They were quite sure they had attained a certain "gnosis"—had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
  • Thus we see how the gnosis ( "wisdom") of the atheist - in this particular case, Marx —  Latest Articles
  • Along with Gnostics (from the Greek word "gnosis" meaning knowledge) they were persecuted, anathematised and systematically and progressively oppressed. —  Al-Ahram Weekly Online
  • By some magic of gnosis, you claim you are granted the wisdom to define two-thirds of those as terrorists or combatants or whatever the accusation du jour is. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • It uses occult themes as the carrier waves on which travels the real story (about love, open source gnosis, and DNA-rearranging sex). —  Boing Boing
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  1. Greek gnōsis, knowledge, from gignōskein, gnō-, to know; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek γνῶσις, knowledge, from γιγνώσκειν, γνῶναι, know, = English know: see know, and cf. gnome1, gnostic.
 

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