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- noun Plural form of
fakeer .
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Examples
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First, it is augmented by the fakeers, and by political men, who are ever active in bringing to their aid superstition and enthusiasm, to increase the hostility.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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As a contrast to this gay scene, Madame Pfeiffer describes the performance of the wretched fanatics called fakeers.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous
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Many fakeers were sent from the Sultan to the Prince; with the most solemn assurances of his reconciliation, and with urgent solicitations to him to return; but the Prince never forgave or forgot the insult.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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The chief of the fakeers met me in the portico, and cordially shook hands with me, calling me his brother.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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_Prognosticated_ prosperity from the prayers of benediction of the marabats or fakeers of the sanctuary of Muley Dris Zerone.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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The alarm instantly drew the whole body, with the fakeers, out of the place, with so much fury, that the officers, though mounted upon elephants, were compelled to seek their safety in flight; and in endeavouring to pass the Jumna, they both perished.
A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals Percy J. Billinghurst
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The four fakeers were quarreling over these four things.
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This, for a brief season, checked the rapacious Mahrattas; and the attention of Hastings was next directed to the inroads which the Bootans had made in Cooch-Bahar, and the devastations of the Senassie fakeers in the country round Bengal.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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The Vizier, in obedience to the Sultan's orders, sent the habits of two fakeers into the palace; and at evening the Sultan, accompanied by his Vizier, went forth in his disguise.
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If, therefore, this divine principle be recognised by muselmen, who have had intercourse and commercial negociations with Europeans, in defiance of the obstacles to this doctrine suggested by the fakeers and political men; what might we not expect from the due cultivation of an extensive commerce, upon a grand national scale, with this interesting continent?
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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