Sympathist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer.

    "c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare the sensation , -of human auditors , —of flesh and blood sympathists - acts as a support and a stimulation a tergo"

  2. 2
    One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion. archaic

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"c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare the sensation , -of human auditors , —of flesh and blood sympathists - acts as a support and a stimulation a tergo"

Etymology

From sympathy + -ist.

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