Blavatsky

[ bluh-vat-skee ]

noun

1. Madame Elena Petrovna Blavatskaya, nee Hahn, 1831–91, Russian theosophist.

Blavatsky

/ bləˈvætskɪ /

noun

1. BlavatskyElena Petrovna18311891FRussianRELIGION: theosophist Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky . 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)

Example Sentences

Fabulous lunatic Madame Blavatsky was a con artist, a mystic, and the founder of the Theosophist Society.

From The Daily Beast

This did not, however, stop her from snagging, at the age of 17, an older geezer named Blavatsky.

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Simply join hands with the living and summon up the spirit of Madame Blavatsky!

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As a professing Buddhist, Madame Blavatsky consistently dissociated herself from any schemes of material welfare.

From Project Gutenberg

Of this character is Theosophy, an occult movement brought into recent prominence by the works and personality of Mme. Blavatsky.

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It may seem strange that a lady of Madame Blavatsky's undoubted powers of imagination should run in the old rut.

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"She's the simon-pure Blavatsky, all right," he concluded, as he pieced these things into what he had just seen.

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I noticed a purse on the dressing-table, lying next to Madame Blavatsky's big book on Theosophy.

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