Swedenborgian

English

Etymology

From Swedenborg +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Swedenborgian (comparative more Swedenborgian, superlative most Swedenborgian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg in 1688), Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian.

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Noun

Swedenborgian (plural Swedenborgians)

  1. A religious follower of Emanuel Swedenborg.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76:
      As Kirkpatrick worked, Otto Hahn - an intensely patriotic German lawyer and amateur petrologist turned Swedenborgian who believed life originated in outer space - was spending long hours staring down his microscope at what he took to be the fossilised remnants of algae.

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