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Doukhobor|ˈduːkəbɔː(r)|
Also Dukh-. Pl. -ors or -ortsy.
[Russ. Dukhobór, pl. -bóry, also -bórets, pl. -bórtsȳ, spirit-wrestler (see spirit n. 23 c).]
A member of a Russian religious sect which originated in the 18th century, many of whose members emigrated to Western Canada in the late nineteenth century after persistent persecution. Also attrib.
1876J. B. Telfer Crimea I. x. 112 The Douhobortsy fully believe the Scriptures to be the revelation of God. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 82/2 The ‘Dukhobortsy’ communities (warriors of the Spirit)..are renowned as colonizers. 1897[see spirit n. 23 c]. 1899Westm. Gaz. 24 Apr. 3/2 Some of the Russian Doukhobors who have been expelled for refusing to participate in war. 1899Daily News 30 May 5/2 Several settlements of the persecuted sect of the Doukobohrs [sic] are established there [sc. in Canada]. 1921R. M. Jones Later Periods of Quakerism II. xx. 836 The persecution of the Doukhobors in Trans-Caucasia. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 1021/4 We learn that when the Dukhobor colonists marched in force to the local seat of justice to protest..‘every man, woman and child in the procession was stark naked’. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revol. vi. 135 The anti-social but extremely religious Doukhobors. 1968Woodcock & Avakumovic Doukhobors i. 19 The name of ‘Doukhobor’..was first used in anger and derision by one of their opponents, Archbishop Amvrosii Serebrennikov of Ekaterinoslav. It means ‘Spirit Wrestlers’, and it was intended by the archbishop, when he invented it in 1785, to suggest that they were fighting against the Holy Ghost. Ibid., There is a central, constant element in Doukhobor Christianity. |