Old Believer

American  

noun

1. Raskolnik.

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Etymology

Origin of Old Believer

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

On every side the Old Believer raised about him a wall of scruples and prejudices, entrenching himself behind his stagnation and ignorance, and anathematizing all civilization in a breath.

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

The endurance of the Old Believer is marvellous; no offer of food will tempt him from what he considers his duty.

From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther

The afternoon was closed with a visit to a Raskolnik, or Old Believer, and of all our experiences this turned out to be the most curious.

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

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 Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Their main point is their character of protests, so that an Old Believer may be described as a Cossack in religion, transporting into that domain the instincts peculiar to the wild horsemen of the Don.

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