Schwärmerei
Americannoun
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But these moments of high enthusiasm are rare; and Kant commends sobriety and warns against high-minded Schwärmerei, or over-strained Mysticism.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
In one was the influence of France, in the other the native Schwärmerei.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
If I've got to drink an extra glass of port, I'm there; if it's Sir Roger de Coverley, I'm there; I'll do anything to add to the general Schwärmerei.
From Prince Fortunatus by Black, William
They have but little of that dreamy Schwärmerei with which the people of the North are largely gifted.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
But he was as much opposed to the pretentiousness of dogmatic metaphysics as to the pusillanimity of scepticism and the Schwärmerei of mysticism.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
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