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
She was also a spiritualist, like many in her circle, and conducted séances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024
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
It reminds her so much of consoling her old spiritualist clients that she is surprised when she is thanked by name.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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