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transcendentalist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transcendentalist \Tran`scen*den"tal*ist\, n. [Cf. F. transcendantaliste.] One who believes in transcendentalism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from transcendental + -ist.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who believes in transcendentalism. 2 A group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
WordNet
n. advocate of Transcendentalism
Usage examples of "transcendentalist".
He made acquaintance with Transcendentalism and the Transcendentalists.
And then it is only fair to believe that Hawthorne was interested in the experiment, and that though he was not a Transcendentalist, an Abolitionist, or a Fourierite, as his companions were in some degree or other likely to be, he was willing, as a generous and unoccupied young man, to lend a hand in any reasonable scheme for helping people to live together on better terms than the common.
Erotic Tension Beneath Transcendentalist Philosophy: Work, Sex, and Thought in Utopian Communities.
Lit Crit colleagues and veered slightly from the history of philosophy to the venerable topic of who slept with whom in the American Transcendentalist movement.
That a tree can be both a tree and not a tree, is an idea which the angels, or the devils, may entertain, and which no doubt many an earthly Bedlamite, or Transcendentalist, does.
Perhaps there were even some softhearted transcendentalists and nature lovers staring up at the model of the iron bridge and shaking their heads in dismay, and for no reason other than this concept was new.
Emerson and Thoreau, as well as many Transcendentalists after them, have called this interconnectedness an oversoul, or a community of spirit.
Now the first thing that Aquinas did, though by no means the last, was to say to these pure transcendentalists something substantially like this.
Lillian, was a complexity: she had grown up in a house of New England Transcendentalists and passionately pursued the riches of interior life.
New England, though many of the more prominent transcendentalists took no direct part in it.
Having prepared the way with a storm of arrows the Claw launched another in the long series of brutal assaults to which the Transcendentalists had become accustomed over the last few weeks.
Emerson and the transcendentalists and on the other by healers, prophets of strange creeds and dreamers of Utopias.
Mare Tenebrarum--an ocean well described by the Nubian geographer, Ptolemy Hephaestion, but little frequented in modern days unless by the Transcendentalists and some other divers for crotchets.
The whole universe of concrete objects, as we know them, swims, not only for such a transcendentalist writer, but for all of us, in a wider and higher universe of abstract ideas, that lend it its significance.
He solicits judgment on the ground which the most gentle-spirited Transcendentalist may take, and so save himself from dissolution in sympathy, namely, that we should abide firmly by the law we have till the higher law is ready.