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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. belief in the appearance of the Mahdi; devotion to a Mahdi;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mahdism \Mah"dism\, n. Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. -- Mah"dist, n. Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed. --E. N. Bennett. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Mahdism n 1: belief in the appearance of the Mahdi; devotion to a Mahdi