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starets
[ stahr-its, -yits ]
noun
Russian Orthodox Church.
plural startsy
- a religious teacher or counselor.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of starets1
1915鈥20; < Russian 蝉迟谩谤别迟蝉 elder, derivative of 蝉迟谩谤测菒 old
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鈥淒o you want to hear what the special method of praying was that the starets told him about?鈥 she asked.
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He was so alarmed that he wrote about it to the starets.
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鈥淲ell, the starets tells him about the Jesus Prayer first of all. 鈥
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There were pilgrims who constantly tramped from one holy place to another and from one starets to another, and were always entranced by every shrine and every starets.
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All he could do then was to obey the starets, to restrain himself, to undertake nothing, and simply to wait.
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