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Transcendentalist

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tran·scen·den·tal·ism  (trnsn-dntl-zm)
n.
1. A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
2. The quality or state of being transcendental.
transcen·dental·ist n.
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Noun1.Transcendentalisttranscendentalist - advocate of transcendentalism        
philosopher - a specialist in philosophy


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And therefore if I were a Bostonian, I think I would be a Transcendentalist.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
I bedewed his grave with my tears, worked a bar sinister on his family escutcheon, and, for the general expenses of his funeral, sent in my very moderate bill to the transcendentalists.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
His main interest, however, was now in philosophy; perhaps no Englishman has ever had a more profoundly philosophical mind; and through scattered writings and through his stimulating though prolix talks to friends and disciples he performed a very great service to English thought by introducing the viewpoint and ideas of the German transcendentalists, such as Kant, Schelling, and Fichte.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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