Lexicographical Neighbors of Reverist
Literary usage of Reverist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1875)
"A reverist is one who, having forsaken practical life, is dwelling in ether, ...
Thus, while the reverist is dwelling in visions of heroic life, he is, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"Not for a Fool, formed to flutter in society — a moth about a candle ; not for
a driveling, dreaming reverist, who sits alone, and builds his castles in the ..."
3. The Life of Jesus the Christ by Henry Ward Beecher (1891)
"... year had ascended to the great national festivals, should all at once walk
among these scenes of gladness like a mourner or an absent-minded reverist. ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"In a third stage or form, the reverist cannot be recalled to active perception,
loses individuality, and is absorbed ..."
5. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"In these delightful moments, in which the mind, escaping from the trammels of
will and judgment, riots amid scenes of its own creation, the reverist is ..."
6. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"... for boys of every generation since, I inwardly ascribed this sketch to my
admired reverist, partly induced, no doubt, by the localization of the title. ..."
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