spiritualist
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- adjective
- /ˈspɪrɪtʃuəlɪst/
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espiritualista
- The Nicholses appreciated the importance Catholics placed on what lay behind Spiritualist phenomena and reimagined their story accordingly.
- spiritualist movement
- spiritualist church
The Yogi is the spiritualist dreamer, and the commissar you'll know them from, if you've you, you'll know Constantine.
- The Yogi is the spiritualist dreamer, and the commissar you'll know them from, if you've you, you'll know Constantine.
Examples
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The Nicholses also took leadership roles within the British Spiritualist community.
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Out of body experiences were known during the Victorian period in spiritualist literature as traveling clairvoyance.
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Yet it remained for supernatural demonstrations to bring Thomas into the Spiritualist fold.
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Yet the reality of Spiritualist phenomena was not the most important point to Catholics.
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Rather than asking what lay behind Spiritualist phenomena, then, Thomas thought Christians might instead judge Spiritualism by its fruit.
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The turn-of-the-century spiritualist movement involved the consultation of mediums who called upon spirit guides from the other world.
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The Nicholses certainly understood their Spiritualist beliefs in opposition to materialism.
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Describing the Spiritualist doctrine of eternal progress, Thomas suggested that humans should not expect instant sanctification upon death.
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Where denominational affiliation could be determined, the majority of cultic workers were associated with Spiritualist churches.
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The film explored the controversial practices of a spiritualist who claimed to communicate with the dead.
Synonyms
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Relating to a person who says they can speak to spirits
Beliefs and practices that try to contact spirits or the dead
Relating to practices that try to contact dead people
How Spiritual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spiritualist comes from spirit, a word that originally meant 'breath' and then 'soul', plus the ending -ist, which marks a belief or follower. So spiritualist as an adjective describes things connected to the belief that spirits can communicate with the living.