English Explanatory Dictionary

Doukhobor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a religious group of Russian origin who rejected the Czarist government of the late 1800s and Russian Orthodox priests, icons, and rituals, aiming to internalize the living spirit of God in each individual.

Word forms

Doukhobor Doukhobors Doukhobortsy Dukhobor

Etymology

From Russian Духобор (Duxobor, “spirit wrestler”).

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