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- noun Plural form of
emotionalist .
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Examples
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The ultimate programmer of his subconscious is philosophy -- the science which, according to the emotionalists, is impotent to affect or penetrate the murky mysteries of their feelings.
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If we were to give up all these hard earned victories, cease to investigate or experiment, deny the existence of disease, and depend upon the questionable methods of hysterical emotionalists we would soon find ourselves facing all the horrors of the past.
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The progressives, Taft asserted, were "political emotionalists" and "neurotics"; Roosevelt, he complained, had promised not to accept another nomination, had broken his agreement, and had not given a fair account of the policies which the administration had been following.
The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley
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These emotionalists urge the Imperialists against the use of black warriors for the simple reason that it would give them (the emotionalists) "a shock".
Chapter XXI Solomon Tshekisho 1916
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The writer has during the past six months come across instances of the loss of an only son, but all these agonies count as nothing to your colourphobic emotionalists, who must, at any price, be spared their "shock" regardless of the sufferings of others.
Chapter XXI Solomon Tshekisho 1916
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We were, all of us I think, emotionalists, of one kind or another, and went up and down in our feelings, alliances, severances, trusts and distrusts, as a thermometer goes up and down.
The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912
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Moodie; by fervid emotionalists, such as Anne Hutchinson or the Quaker missionaries: and every discussion of the creed left it more precisely defined, more narrow, and more official.
Beginnings of the American People Carl Lotus Becker 1909
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He knew, too, that he was not making his life easier by adopting this course, nor was he gaining the popular favour of the emotionalists.
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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Signor and pushed his way through the delightedly horror-stricken emotionalists who had gathered at the fray, and strolled over to where
The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man George Randolph Chester 1896
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It is true that superficial thinkers and readers, enthusiasts and emotionalists, are likely to infer that the science of the soul can now be had "for a consideration" and in "a dozen easy lessons."
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