Molokan

American  

[mol-uh-kahn] / ˈmɒl əˌkɑn /

noun

1. a member of an ascetic religious sect, founded in Russia in the 18th century by former Doukhobors, opposing sacraments and ritual and stressing the authority of the Bible.

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Etymology

Origin of Molokan

< Russian molokán (now usually molokánin, plural -áne ), equivalent to molok ( ó ) milk + -an noun suffix; originally so named because they ate dairy products on fast days, contrary to Orthodox observance

Example Sentences

His zeal has since carried him to the Molokan colonies on the Amoor, where he has been preaching and teaching for three years with such remarkable results as to have received the title of "a Modern Apostle."

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When I found a Molokan, or some one whom I suspected to be such, I talked for some time about the weather and the crops, as if I had no ulterior object in view.

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Though he professed himself to be a good Molokan and was received as such, he enounced at the weekly meetings many new and startling ideas.

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This account of the new doctrine was given to me by an intelligent Molokan, who had formerly been a peasant and was now a trader, as I sat one evening in his house in Novo-usensk, the chief town of the district in which Alexandrof-Hai is situated.

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When returning some weeks later from a visit to the Kirghiz of the Inner Horde, I arrived one evening at this centre of the Molokan faith, and was hospitably received by one of the brotherhood.

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