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21demerit — [[t]di͟ːme̱rɪt[/t]] demerits N COUNT: usu pl, usu with poss The demerits of something or someone are their faults or disadvantages. [FORMAL] ...editorials and leading articles debating the merits and demerits of the three candidates. Ant: merit …
22demerit — de•mer•it [[t]dɪˈmɛr ɪt[/t]] n. 1) a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency 2) the quality of being censurable; fault; culpability 3) Obs. offense • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME (< OF desmerite) < ML dēmeritum fault, n. use of neut …
23Purana Kassapa — IAST|Pūraṇa Kassapa was an Indian ascetic teacher who lived around the 5th or 4th c. BCE, contemporaneous with Mahavira and the Buddha. Purana taught a theory of non action (Pāli, Skt.: akiriyavada ) whereby the body acts independent of the soul …
24Emunoth ve-Deoth — ( he. אמונות ודעות; Hebrew: Beliefs and Opinions ) written by Rabbi Saadia Gaon originally Kitab al Amanat wal l tikadat ( Book of the Articles of Faith and Doctrines of Dogma ) was the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of… …
25Aggañña Sutta — is the 27th Sutta of Digha Nikaya collections. The sutta describes a discourse imparted from the Buddha to two Brahmins, Bharadvaja and Vasettha, who left their family and caste to become monks. The two brahmins are insulted and maligned by their …
26Jansenius and Jansenism — • The subject of this article lived three quarters of a century later than his namesake. He was born 28 October, 1585, of a Catholic family, in the village of Accoi, near Leerdam, Holland; died at Ypres, 6 May, 1638 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
27Hinduism — /hin dooh iz euhm/, n. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many… …
28Jacques-Benigne Bossuet — Jacques Benigne Bossuet † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jacques Benigne Bossuet A celebrated French bishop and pulpit orator, born at Dijon, 27 September, 1627, died at Paris, 12 April, 1704. For more than a century his ancestors, both… …
29Teaching of St. Augustine of Hippo — Teaching of St. Augustine of Hippo † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Teaching of St. Augustine of Hippo St. Augustine of Hippo (354 430) is a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, dominating, like a pyramid, antiquity and… …
30Sin — • A moral evil Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sin Sin † Catholic Encyclopedia ► …
