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starets
[ stahr-its, -yits ]
noun
Russian Orthodox Church.
plural startsy
- a religious teacher or counselor.
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yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of starets1
1915â20; < Russian ²õ³Ùá°ù±ð³Ù²õ elder, derivative of ²õ³Ùá°ù²âÇ old
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âDo you want to hear what the special method of praying was that the starets told him about?â she asked.
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He was so alarmed that he wrote about it to the starets.
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âWell, the starets tells him about the Jesus Prayer first of all. â
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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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