A member of a large sect of Russian radical Protestant dissenters founded near Odessa around 1860, who adhere to a literal reading of the Bible and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship, influenced by German Protestant settlers.
Origin
From Russian, probably from German Stunde, from their meetings for Bible reading.
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