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transcendentalist

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An adherent of some form of: transcendentalism; especially, an American follower of Sehelling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who believes in transcendentalism.

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  • noun One who believes in transcendentalism.
  • noun 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.

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  • noun advocate of transcendentalism

Etymologies

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transcendental +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • This middle zone of power and mastery is the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it and lives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_ of the new civilization.

    Freedom Talks No. II Julia Seton

  • You are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy, making, if I mistake not, an entirely new era in respect of matter, but unlike the works of genius of the 'transcendentalist' movement (which are so obscurely and abominably and inaccessibly written), a pure classic in point of form.

    Familiar Letters of William James III 1920

  • It should be noted that in this period the term "transcendentalist" is extended beyond its usual meaning and loosely applied to those thinkers who

    History of American Literature Reuben Post Halleck 1897

  • Miss Lu lu Bett, Ms. Gale's novels became more spiritual, creating a world where social ills could be solved through a kind of transcendentalist enlightenment.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • But Wilson is wrong in thinking that Aquinas must therefore be an ethical "transcendentalist" who believes that moral knowledge comes only from some supernatural source beyond the natural experience of human beings.

    Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart 2008

  • From the radical, transcendentalist village life of nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts, to the horrors of the Civil War hospitals in Washington, D.C.,

    The Glory Cloak by Patricia O'Brien: Book summary 2010

  • Geraldine Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize with her novel "March," inspired by the absent father in "Little Women" and by Louisa May's real father, Bronson Alcott, a fascinating figure Brooks called the "most transcendent transcendentalist of them all."

    Review of 'The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott,' by Kelly O'Connor McNees Carrie Brown 2010

  • The famous Unitarian and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden wrote, "Things do not change; we change."

    TEXAS FAITH: Confronting a new year and a new decade | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • I always wondered if you considered yourself a transcendentalist or a transient mentalist.

    More on Sarah Palin, Moose Hunting, and Other Stuff 2008

  • Geraldine Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize with her novel "March," inspired by the absent father in "Little Women" and by Louisa May's real father, Bronson Alcott, a fascinating figure Brooks called the "most transcendent transcendentalist of them all."

    Review of 'The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott,' by Kelly O'Connor McNees Carrie Brown 2010

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