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anti-Shiitic

anti-Shiitic adjective: relating to or pertaining to anti-Shi'ism.

Adjective

anti-Shiitic (comparative more anti-Shiitic, superlative most anti-Shiitic)

  1. Relating to or pertaining to anti-Shi'ism.
    • But this movement — although its views were compatible with the prevailing anti-Shiitic atmosphere — does not until Harun ar-Rashid's death in 809 appear able to assert itself side by side with such traditionalists as Hisham […]1964, Erling Petersen, ʻAlī and Muʻāwiya in Early Arabic Tradition, Page 88
    • The Sunnitic protest against the transferring of this miracle to the Mahdi found expression in an interpretation forcibly put upon the well-known hadith — in itself an anti- Shiitic protest1909, American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 29, page 54

Forms of anti-Shiitic

comparativemore anti-Shiitic
superlativemost anti-Shiitic

Questions about anti-Shiitic

What does anti-Shiitic mean?
Anti-Shiitic means relating to or pertaining to anti-Shi'ism.
What part of speech is anti-Shiitic?
Anti-Shiitic is an adjective.

Words near anti-Shiitic in the dictionary

  1. anti-Shia
  2. anti-Shiah
  3. anti-Shiism
  4. anti-Shiite
  5. anti-Shiites
  6. anti-Shiitic
  7. anti-shine powder
  8. anti-shine powders
  9. anti-Shintoism
  10. anti-ship
  11. anti-ship missile

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