Meanings of Manichean in English

South America would make him a sceptic, and Java a decided Manichean.

In this last particular, the tendency of the Fourieristic morality is quite Manichean.

Still, he found great difficulty in getting free of all his Manichean prejudices.

As a Manichean he occasioned great anxiety to his mother Monica.

The war was undertaken on false pretences and driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris.

But the Manichean politics of pain has its weaknesses.

So warm and widespread was the acclaim that its Manichean pessimism seemed to have been disproved.

The Manichean doctrine, then, is exposed to every objection to which a theory can be obnoxious.

It doesn't get more Manichean than that.

We owe much (notwithstanding their partial and Manichean idea of beauty) to the early ascetic painters.

In Augustine's work against Faustus the Manichean (xx.

But the dearest friend of Mr. Glowry, and his most welcome guest, was Mr. Toobad, the Manichean Millenarian.

IS viewed the Yazidis as devil worshippers for their faith that combines Zoroastrian, Christian, Manichean, Jewish and Muslim beliefs.

The Manichean doctrines were widespread in southern Europe; these had many different sects but they lived peacefully side by side.

Both J. Edgar Hoover and Congressman Otto Passman are high-ranking Masons and both, significantly, reflect this philosophy and its Manichean attitude.

The Manichean politics of pain foreclosed the kind of debate and deliberation that might have allowed more serious consideration of this option.