Blavatsky

American  

[bluh-vat-skee] / bləˈvæt ski /

noun

1. Madame Elena Petrovna Blavatskaya, nee Hahn, 1831–91, Russian theosophist.

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Blavatsky British  

/ bləˈvætskɪ /

noun

1. Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky . 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)

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Example Sentences

Blavatsky in the bowl; every year since then, as we mark up our slips, somebody will mutter “H.P. Blavatsky,” and we’ll all laugh.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2018

Established in New York by the Russian émigré Madame Blavatsky, Theosophy was a fast-spreading spiritualist movement that sought to reconcile Eastern philosophy and religion with its Western counterparts.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018

Another person who influenced our notion of Tibet very much was a half-Russian lady called Helena Blavatsky.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2012

That seemed a very "period" thing to be in Britain, something out of the dubious, not quite hygienic mysteries of Madame Blavatsky, a pure product of the 1890s.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012

The true title of the "third and revised edition" should be "The Secret Doctrine, written by H. P. Blavatsky, corrected and approved by the Master K. H., and corrupted by Annie Besant."

From H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal by Cleather, Alice Leighton