

Mar 23, 2016 This week’s theme

Words with unusual plurals



This week’s words

bema

quale

starets

genus

paries



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starets PRONUNCIATION: (STAHR-its, -yits)



MEANING: noun: A religious teacher or adviser.

ETYMOLOGY: From Russian starets (elder). In the Eastern Orthodox Church a starets is a spiritual adviser who is not necessarily a priest. Earliest documented use: 1923.

USAGE:

Cecilia Rasmussen; Shadowed by Rasputin’s Evil Reputation; Los Angeles Times; Oct 10, 1999.



See more usage examples of “Grigori Rasputin was neither mad nor a monk, but an unconventional starets.”Cecilia Rasmussen; Shadowed by Rasputin’s Evil Reputation;; Oct 10, 1999.See more usage examples of starets in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. -Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980)





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