DUCHOBORTZI

DUCHOBORTZI
   a religious community in Russia of Quaker principles, and of a creed that denied the doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of Christ; they became a cause of trouble to the empire by their fanaticism, and were removed to a high plateau in Transcaucasia, where they live by cattle-rearing.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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