transcendentalist
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)
- One who believes in transcendentalism.
- 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience […] [1], London: Longmans, Green & Co.:
- “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!”
- Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French transcendantaliste.
Noun edit
transcendentalist m (plural transcendentaliști)
Declension edit
Declension of transcendentalist
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) transcendentalist | transcendentalistul | (niște) transcendentaliști | transcendentaliștii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) transcendentalist | transcendentalistului | (unor) transcendentaliști | transcendentaliștilor |
| vocative | transcendentalistule | transcendentaliștilor | ||