Cainite

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[key-nahyt] / ˈkeɪ naɪt /

noun

1. a member of a Gnostic sect that exalted Cain and regarded the God of the Old Testament as responsible for evil.

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Etymology

Origin of Cainite

< Medieval Latin Cainīta ( cain, -ite ¹; compare Late Latin Caiānus with same sense)

Example Sentences

Farther, it is to be inferred from notices in the fourth chapter of Genesis, that before the deluge there was both a nomadic and a settled population, and that the principal seat of the Cainite, or more debased yet energetic branch of the human family, was to the eastward of the site of Eden.

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Perhaps he was a sort of a Cainite, saying, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

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Where is the authority to be found for the tradition, quoted in an Introduction to the Books of Moses, by James Morison, p. 26., that Naameh, the daughter of Lamech the Cainite and Zillah, married Ham, the son of Noah, and thus survived the Flood?

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Ishmael, Edom, and the Cainite tribes first mentioned, come into mutual contact in different ways, which may be quite naturally explained from different views and arrangements of their mutual relationships.

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When the Cainite died, a dispute broke out among his descendants as to how the property was to be divided.

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