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Harmonist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who shows the agreement of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four Biblical evangelists.

    "The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order."

  2. 2
    A member of the Harmony Society, a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Germany in 1785. historical
  3. 3
    One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a composer.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From harmony + -ist. Compare French harmoniste.

Etymology 2

From harmony + -ist.

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