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Definition of Idealizers
1. idealizer [n] - See also: idealizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealizers
Literary usage of Idealizers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1891)
"idealizers assert that wisdom, virtue, goodness, truth, and so on, ... idealizers
assume that numbers are abstractions—are abstract deas j and rest imposing ..."
2. Memories and Studies by William James (1911)
"... and will always find impassioned apologists and idealizers. Not only men born
to be soldiers, but non- combatants by trade and nature, historians in ..."
3. Official Report of the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress: Held at Boston (1904)
"... and a function so ingrained and vital will never consent to die without
resistance, and will always find impassioned apologists and idealizers. ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1920)
"The Revolution produced a crop of idealizers and theorizers who have planned the
complete democratization of society. The ideal of " equality," rather than ..."
5. Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth by John Weiss (1864)
"There is also the plastic art ; and these two are great idealizers, fellow-workers
with men in the cause of humanity. There, my friends, stands a new ..."
6. Race Orthodoxy in the South: And Other Aspects of the Negro Question by Thomas Pearce Bailey (1914)
"Yes, that is one of the troubles—and one of the permanent factors—not altogether
to be frowned upon by idealizers of present-day "national" leaders. ..."
7. Suum Cuique: Essays in Music by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck (1916)
"Now, I do not for a moment deny that some very enjoyable and artistically highly
successful experiments have left the laboratories of the idealizers of ..."
8. The Philosophy of Loyalty by Josiah Royce (1908)
"Death, viewed as a mere fact of human experience, and as a merely psychological
influence, has been one of the greatest idealizers of human life. ..."