spiritualist

American  

[spir-i-choo-uh-list] / ˈspɪr ɪ tʃu ə lɪst /

noun

1. an adherent of spiritualism.

2. a person who is concerned with or insists on the spiritual side of things.

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Other Word Forms

• antispiritualist noun

Etymology

Origin of spiritualist

First recorded in 1640–50; spiritual + -ist

Example Sentences

The image of Ginsberg that vividly emerges is that of an angry, bushily bearded man, polemicizing about corporations and the Times’s malign influence, and often breaking out in spiritualist chanting, all to Hujar’s profound disinterest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Sennott has dropped the spiritualist concept of the Saturn return in many interviews to describe her show’s central theme.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

Most expensive: “An album of rare spirit photos taken during seances by William Walker of the Crewe Circle, a well-known spiritualist group in the early 1900s. They were around $14,000.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

According to reports, Orme had been living in India for more than a decade, and had met and befriended Stephens, a spiritualist who hailed from Lucknow city.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

She was also an advocate for “free love,” a blackmailer, an accused bigamist, possibly a prostitute, and a spiritualist who claimed she channeled the spirit of Demosthenes, a statesman from ancient Greece.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling