English Explanatory Dictionary

Stundist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a large sect of Russian radical Protestant dissenters founded near Odessa around 1860, who adhere to a literal reading of the Bible and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship, influenced by German Protestant settlers.

Word forms

Stundist Stundists Shtundist

Etymology

From Russian, probably from German Stunde (“hour”), from their meetings for Bible reading.

Related words

Stundism
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