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Definition of Emotionalists
1. emotionalist [n] - See also: emotionalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotionalists
Literary usage of Emotionalists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Musical Motley by Ernest Newman (1919)
"And the result, as might have been expected, was to strike a balance between the
two extremes; against the anti-emotionalists it can be proved that actors ..."
2. Masks Or Faces?: A Study in the Psychology of Acting by William Archer (1888)
"The anti-emotionalists would have the actor abjure, at any rate in the moment of
... The emotionalists, as I understand their position, maintain that the ..."
3. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"... used to be charged on high Calvinista is now sometimes charged on those who
become, under the influence of revivals, extreme emotionalists in religion. ..."
4. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"To the service of the most wildly eccentric thoughts he brings the acerbity of
a bigot and the deep sentiment of Morel's “emotionalists. ..."
5. The development of the English novel by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1899)
"Weir Mitchell; and by a group of Scotch emotionalists and humorists, among whom
are J". M. Barrie and John Watson, who have spread the fame of Thrums and ..."
6. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1894)
"To the men who are swayed only by the most obvious ethical considerations he
applies the term "emotionalists." " The emotionalist is influenced by the ..."
7. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"... (and emotionalists). It is worth noting that in this psychological scheme
Kant, the arch-rationalist, accepted feeling or emotion as a distinct ..."
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