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单词 spiritualist
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spiritualist
noun[C]
(alsoSpiritualist)
uk
/ˈspɪr.ɪ.tʃu.əl.ɪst/us
/ˈspɪr.ə.tʃu.əl.ɪst/
someone whobelievesthatlivingpeoplecancommunicatewithpeoplewho havedied,especiallysomeone whohelpsotherpeoplecommunicatewiththeirdeadfamilymembers:
相信生者可以同死者沟通的人，尤指帮助别人与逝去的家人交流的招魂术士
A spiritualist had told her he could give her amessagefrom herdeadhusband.一个招魂术士告诉她可以替她的亡夫带信给她。
Emmabecamea Spiritualist, apersonwhobelievesthat thelivingcancommunicatewith thespiritsof thedead.艾玛成了唯灵派教义的信徒，就是那种相信生者可以同死者亡灵沟通的人。
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  • Shetriedtocontactherdeadsisterthoughmediumsand spiritualists.
  • Thebusinessofkeepingintouchwith thedeadisgenerallyleftto spiritualists andmediums.
  • Theirworkappearsto be theproductofdramaticempathy,ratherlike that of spiritualistscallingup thedead.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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  • apparition
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  • ectoplasm
  • ghostly
  • incorporeal
  • incubus
  • necromancer
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  • Ouija board
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spiritualist
adjective
uk
/ˈspɪr.ɪ.tʃu.əl.ɪst/us
/ˈspɪr.ə.tʃu.əl.ɪst/
believingthatlivingpeoplecancommunicatewithpeoplewho havedied, orrelatingto thisbelief:
相信唯灵论的，唯灵论的
A spiritualistmediuminsistedthat thedeadgirlwouldreturnfor herbestfriend'swedding.一个唯灵学说的传媒体坚称那个逝去的女孩会回到人间来参加她好朋友的婚礼。
She goes to the spiritualistchurch.她参加唯灵派教会的活动。
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spiritualism
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  • Shedecidedtovisita spiritualistmedium.
  • A fewdaysafter hisdeath, a spiritualistmeetingwasarrangedfor him to make anappearancefrom beyond thegrave.
  • He wasprominentin the spiritualistmovement, oftenattendingseances.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Souls, spirits & ghosts
  • apparition
  • astral plane
  • aura
  • chi
  • chthonic
  • ectoplasm
  • ghostly
  • incorporeal
  • incubus
  • necromancer
  • necromancy
  • Ouija board
  • reincarnation
  • soul
  • spectre
  • spirit
  • séance
  • wight
  • wraith
  • zombie
See more results »
(Definition ofspiritualistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspiritualist

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Even within thespiritualistcommunity the ambivalence that attached to materialization betrayed the emotional and epistemological strain of the practice.
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A third feature of significance to spiritualists concerns the affective nature of what went on within seances themselves.
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At the opposite end of the cultural spectrum are spiritualists of a different breed.
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The same performative dynamics structure anotherspiritualistpractice, materialization, whereby a spirit is clothed in temporary flesh derived from the medium's own body.
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Spiritualisttreatises are, in most cases, dreary compendiums of facts and observations.
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Spiritualistwomen acquired unprecedented power by taking their passive feminine role to the extreme.
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Yet when spiritualists appropriated the formulae of such scenes it was within a set of practices that explicitly denied the fact of death at all.
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In the circles of the learned older ideas and presuppositions fed into and fused with newer occult andspiritualisttraditions.
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The irreducible ambiguity of thespiritualistwomen's position consisted in the fact that they were empowered by their own powerlessness.
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The novel's significance to spiritualists can be exemplified by a further detail.
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The ambiguity both dissociates the medium from the spirit, as required by thespiritualistprotocol, and covertly establishes their commonality, not to say identity.
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Many prominent spiritualists dissociated themselves completely, while others took an uneasy wait-and-see attitude.
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Thespiritualistmedium, in other words, is a ghost's writer, somebody who lends his (or more often her) body to an immaterial spirit in order to produce a text.
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Home became the exemplar medium, continually cited by spiritualists in support of their beliefs, and the most challenging case for critics of spiritualism to deal with.
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Ghosts-written texts were not a new phenomenon; a steady stream of them followed in the wake of the greatspiritualistmovement of the second half of the nineteenth century.
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