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Emerson
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Em·er·son  (mr-sn), Ralph Waldo 1803-1882.
American writer, philosopher, and central figure of American transcendentalism. His poems, orations, and especially his essays, such as Nature (1836), are regarded as landmarks in the development of American thought and literary expression.
Emer·soni·an (-sn-n) adj.
Emerson [ˈɛməsən]
n
(Biographies / Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) M, US, WRITING: poet, WRITING: essayist, RELIGION: transcendentalist) Ralph Waldo. (rælf ˈwɔːldəʊ). 1803-82, US poet, essayist, and transcendentalist
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Noun1.EmersonEmerson - United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Growing by three to five vending machines a day, he has succeeded thanks to gumption, drive and a large dollop of Emersonian self-reliance.
Brian Tannura, pioneer of the vending machine nation by Sabin, Burritt / Japan Inc.
For instance, James's essay caused literary-minded readers to wonder about the tradition of the essay and of "the American scholar" in the Emersonian sense--and indeed in a journal of that very title.
The Trilling family "romance": report of a psychoanalytic autopsy by Rodden, John / Modern Age
Essentially an Emersonian, he's "under the necessity of using the Actual order of things, in order to disuse it; to live by it, whilst [he] wish[es] to take away its life.
Chris Martin: Daniel Weinberg by Hainley, Bruce / Artforum International
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