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/ˈsuːdəʊmɪˌsaɪə/ · noun
A false Messiah; someone putatively claiming to be the Messiah..
The reign of Elizabeth produced a small army of pseudo-Messiahs.
There is evidence that he was a Sabbatean, a follower of the seventeenth-century Jewish pseudomessiah, Shabbatai Zevi.
Ferrar did not rule as a tyrant, nor was he the pseudomessiah of a cult.
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Pseudomessiah means A false Messiah; someone putatively claiming to be the Messiah..
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The reign of Elizabeth produced a small army of pseudo-Messiahs.
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