Harmonist
nounEtymology From harmony + -ist.
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Historical A member of the Harmony Society, a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Germany in 1785.
harmonist
nounalso spelled HarmonistEtymology From harmony + -ist. Compare French harmoniste.
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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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a composer.