Swedenborgian
English
editEtymology
editFrom Swedenborg + -ian.
Adjective
editSwedenborgian (comparative more Swedenborgian, superlative most Swedenborgian)
- Of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg in 1688), Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian.
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editof or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg
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Noun
editSwedenborgian (plural Swedenborgians)
- A religious follower of Emanuel Swedenborg.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76:
- As Kirkpatrick worked, Otto Hahn - an intensely patriotic German lawyer and amateur petrologist turned Swedenborgian who believed life originated in outer space - was spending long hours staring down his microscope at what he took to be the fossilised remnants of algae.
Translations
edita religious follower of Emanuel Swedenborg
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