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  Menchú, Rigoberta Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)  
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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Mencius
 
SYLLABICATION:Men·ci·us
PRONUNCIATION:  mnsh-s
DATES:Fourth century b.c.
VARIANTS:Originally Meng·zi (mngdz)
Chinese Confucian philosopher who taught that people are innately good and that one's nature can be enhanced or perverted by one's environment.
 
 
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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  Menchú, Rigoberta Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)  
 
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