Old Believer

American  

noun

1. Raskolnik.

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Etymology

Origin of Old Believer

First recorded in 1805–15

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Old Believer

In the opinion of a strict Old Believer the right of numbering the people belongs to God alone, as is shown by the biblical record of David's punishment.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

With such dim fears the Old Believer opposed to the orthodox hierarchy a blind fidelity to orthodoxy.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

And do you know he is an Old Believer, or rather a dissenter?

From Crime and Punishment by Constance Garnett

Visit to an "Old Believer"; beauty of his house and its adornments; his religious fanaticism; its effects on Tolstoi.

From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

Long afterward, an Old Believer, a merchant in Tula, spoke to me about it, and I found that the three priests were still alive and in the monastery.

From Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood

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