spiritualist
IPA: spˈɪrɪtʃʌwʌɫɪst
noun
- One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
- (philosophy) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
- One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication with the dead; one who attempts to communicate with the dead.
- (historical, Christianity) An adherent of a dissenting reforming tendency during the early modern period, stressing communion with the Holy Spirit and moral improvement through sanctification while rejecting the outwardly church, without necessarily separating from the Roman Catholic Church.
adjective
- Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.
- (historical, Christianity) Pertaining to the Spiritualists.
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Examples of "spiritualist" in Sentences
- Spiritualist and holistic experience.
- You are good at spiritualist subjects.
- You are then a spiritualist or similar.
- I do not mean spiritualist as in spooks.
- She is a psychic medium and spiritualist.
- He was also in later life a spiritualist.
- She was an abolitionist and a spiritualist.
- I believe in ghosts but am not a spiritualist.
- Gaia is not a spiritualist theory, it is an ecological theory.
- A clairvoyant medium and used his spiritualist gifts for the royalty of Sweden.
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