Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An admirer of Slavic peoples or their culture.
- noun A person advocating the supremacy of Slavic culture, especially over western European influences, as in 19th-century Russia.
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- noun One who is interested in the
development andprosperity of theSlavic race .
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Examples
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He has a reputation, too, of being a “modernizer”, which in the Muscovite context means only not an obscurantist or neo-Slavophile.
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He has a reputation, too, of being a “modernizer”, which in the Muscovite context means only not an obscurantist or neo-Slavophile.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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The repeated railing against the corruptions of the West, the defence of a belligerent and militaristic foreign policy against Austria and Turkey, and, above all, the reiteration of the belief that Russians are the God-bearers of history, are familiar Slavophile themes to anyone who has read the literature of the 1870s.
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The loud-mouthed Slavophile journalist is there in the very texture of the novels.
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Leaving aside the high quality of his blogging, it's good to have another Slavophile on the Northern Ireland blogsphere.
2008 Slugger Awards Burke's Corner 2008
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If you read any Russian history,one of the things you notice is that they alternate riegns between a Westernizing czar and a Slavophile czar.
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This is an attractive position to follow, and it certainly avoids falling into the crude trap of believing that the later novels are simply Slavophile or Christian manifestos.
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Leaving aside the high quality of his blogging, it's good to have another Slavophile on the Northern Ireland blogsphere.
Archive 2008-10-01 Burke's Corner 2008
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Today's Slavophile Russian nationalists seem uncomfortable recalling that, despite his uncompromising critique of Western secularism, their avatar Fyodor Dostoyevsky always regarded Europe as Russia's "mother" civilization.
An Orthodox balm for Europe: Orthodox Christians can help rebuild East-West ties. 2007
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A great deal of sympathy was expressed; a considerable amount of advice was volunteered; Ivan Petrovitch expressed his opinion that the young man was “a Slavophile, or something of that sort”; but that it was not a dangerous development.
The Idiot 2002
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