one of a group of Doukhobors who do not subscribe to violence.
See also: Doukhobor
- 1962  . . . and a large number who accepted naturalization and with it education and other Canadian customs. These "Independent Doukhobors" usually left the colonies and settled in other places.
- 1964  [The] peaceful Doukhobors . . . belong to the sect's other two factions, the Orthodox or Community Doukhobors, and the most Canadianized, the Independents.