spiritualist
Americannoun
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an adherent of spiritualism.
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a person who is concerned with or insists on the spiritual side of things.
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The image of Ginsberg that vividly emerges is that of an angry, bushily bearded man, polemicizing about corporations and the Times’s malign influence, and often breaking out in spiritualist chanting, all to Hujar’s profound disinterest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Sennott has dropped the spiritualist concept of the Saturn return in many interviews to describe her show’s central theme.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
According to reports, Orme had been living in India for more than a decade, and had met and befriended Stephens, a spiritualist who hailed from Lucknow city.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024
This spiritualist, played to turbulent perfection by Janet Greaves, knows how to put on a show.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2023
Even Alfred Russel Wallace, the naturalist who had also come up with the theory of natural selection, was a spiritualist, now working on a book that would be published soon—Miracles and Modem Spiritualism.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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