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Definition
bring something new to an environment
- But to this day it exists in few monasteries only, and has sometimes been almost persecuted as an innovation in Russia.Book 1 — The History Of A Family (78% in)
- This Father Ferapont was that aged monk so devout in fasting and observing silence who has been mentioned already, as antagonistic to Father Zossima and the whole institution of "elders," which he regarded as a pernicious and frivolous innovation.Book 4 — Lacerations (7% in)
- Besides he had, before visiting the monastery, a strong prejudice against the institution of "elders," which he only knew of by hearsay and believed to be a pernicious innovation.Book 4 — Lacerations (15% in)
- It is my private opinion that several different causes were simultaneously at work, one of which was the deeply-rooted hostility to the institution of elders as a pernicious innovation, an antipathy hidden deep in the hearts of many of the monks.Book 7 — Alyosha (12% in)
- "That's all pedantry and innovation, no use listening to it," the monks decided.Book 7 — Alyosha (17% in)
- "He wouldn't be an elder .... he would refuse .... he wouldn't serve a cursed innovation .... he wouldn't imitate their foolery," other voices chimed in at once.Book 7 — Alyosha (28% in)
There are no more uses of "innovate" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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