Schwärmerei
Americannoun
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As to Berlin, I think she has enjoyed it, but she talks very scornfully of German Schwärmerei and German women, and she tells the oddest stories of her professors.
From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
The undisciplined mystic, in his reliance on the inner light, may fall into various kinds of Schwärmerei and superstition.
From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph
Did she, remembering my well-known susceptibility, fear that I might fall in love with him and compromise myself by some silly Schwärmerei?
From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie
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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