Slavophile
Americannoun
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a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
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one of a group of mid-19th century Russian intellectuals who favored traditional cultural practices over Western innovations, especially in political and religious life.
adjective
noun
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a person who admires the Slavs or their cultures
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(sometimes not capital) (in 19th-century Russia) a person who believed in the superiority and advocated the supremacy of the Slavs
adjective
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admiring the Slavs and Slavonic culture, etc
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(sometimes not capital) (in 19th-century Russia) of, characteristic of, or relating to the Slavophiles
Other Word Forms
- Slavophilism noun
Etymology
Origin of Slavophile
Example Sentences
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Yet later in the book, Turgenev informs the Slavophile Dostoyevsky: “You should know that I … consider myself a German, not a Russian, and I’m proud of it!”
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2019
Nikolay Danilevskiy, another prominent Slavophile, disputed that Europe was a continent at all and argued that it should instead be considered just an appendage of Asia.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2017
Even today a powerful Slavophile movement regards Western ways as incompatible with the Russian character.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was disgusted with that self-confident, vulgar, liberal tone of Kolosoff, the bull-like, sensual, figure of old Korchagin, the French phrases of the Slavophile maiden, the ceremonious faces of the governess and the tutor.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
She is at Berlin, received by Bismarck; he hopes that though the great man may not eradicate her Slavophile heresies, he may manifest the weakness of embroiling nations on mere ethnological grounds.
From Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake by Tuckwell, William
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