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n. - The position of a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause

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  • Similarly, his support of Alroy’s messiahship is tinged with jealousy, he himself having failed a generation earlier to lead the people: “I recall the glorious rapture...
  • Collins also wrote a book examining the question of whether the prophecies of Christ's messiahship could be accepted.
  • But in trade, sovereign states became subject provinces and we all became property of a strong central government with delusions of messiahship.
  • Rather, the failure of Alroy’s messiahship seems to imply the necessity of replacing the succession of empires with a geopolitical agreement, ultimately under the...
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