spiritualist
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- adjective
- /ˈspɪrɪtʃuəlɪst/
- The Nicholses appreciated the importance Catholics placed on what lay behind Spiritualist phenomena and reimagined their story accordingly.
- spiritualist movement
- spiritualist church
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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
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Beliefs and practices that try to contact spirits or the dead
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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.