transcendentalist

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Here, he was working the line of not just Twain but also Melville and Hawthorne: all those 19th century masters, Transcendentalist or otherwise.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023

Her father, Bronson Alcott, was an important Transcendentalist thinker and educator whose strict moral principles were easier to admire from afar than to actually live with.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2019

The Great Awakening and the Transcendentalist movement were parts of this rebellion in the United States.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2019

One wooden sign advertises a home called “The Transcendentalist on 6th St.,” while a signpost on a utility pole points the way to “Margaritaville” and a “Tiki Bar.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 9, 2019

A Transcendentalist, in the technical sense of the term, it cannot be clearly affirmed that he was.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks