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- proper noun Alternative form of
Slavonic . - adjective Alternative form of
Slavonic .
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Examples
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The ancient Sclavonic, which is the language of the Eastern Church, possesses great majesty.
Life of Chopin Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1877
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The service was said to be in old Sclavonic, which is equally unintelligible to the people at large, as
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The ancient Sclavonic, which is the language of the Eastern Church, possesses great majesty.
Life of Chopin Franz Liszt 1848
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The younger traveller was apparently in early youth, a soft and gentle boy, whose Sclavonic gown, the appropriate dress of the pilgrim, he wore more closely drawn about him than the coldness of the weather seemed to authorize or recommend.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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Her head, truly charming, was of the purest Sclavonic type — slightly severe, and likely in a few summers to unfold into beauty rather than mere prettiness.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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Helmond, and others, and the Sclavonic word _liuti_ signified _wild, fierce_, &c.
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Service Books translated into the native Sclavonic language; the Greek monks, Cyril and Methodius, who have been already mentioned as instrumental in the conversion of Bohemia and Moravia, taking also an active share in the Christianizing of Russia.
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt
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Before the end of the thirteenth century, the German element had quite superseded the Sclavonic in Prussia, as well as in Pomerania, and in what had formerly been the kingdom of the Wends.
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt
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Alfred's narration, where the passage is also correctly translated; but as regards the illustration of the names of the people of Sclavonic race, much yet remains to be done.
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The mistake of Barrington and Dr. Ingram is the more extraordinary when it is recollected that no people are so frequently mentioned in the chronicles of the Middle Ages as this Sclavonic tribe: citations might be given out of number, in which their contests with their neighbours the Obotriti, _Abodriti_, or _Apdrede_ of Alfred are noticed.
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