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"Dervish" Definition

noun

A member of any of various Muslim ascetic orders, some of which perform whirling dances and vigorous chanting as acts of ecstatic devotion.
One that possesses abundant, often frenzied energy: "[She] is a dervish of unfocused energy, an accident about to happen” ( Jane Gross).
A member of a Muslim religious order noted for devotional exercises (as bodily movements leading to a trance).
One that whirls or dances with or as if with the abandonment of a dervish.

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