The issue of religious terms illustrated in explanatory dictionaries

The article describes the issue of religious terms illustrated in academic explanatory dictionaries of the 20th and 21st centuries. The author gives examples of the improper use of terms in the dictionary entry's illustrations (exemplified in the words ‘batyushka' and ‘matushka'). The article shows the way of solving this problem supporting it with the articles from “The Russian Dictionary of the 21st century”. The illustrations in these explanatory articles demonstrate the use of terms in the discourse and extend the explanation with the description of the subject being explained.