spiritualist

as in psychic
a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead the spiritualist claims merely to be the agency through which the spirit—or "control"—conveys its messages to the living

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Recent Examples of spiritualist For a brief and beautiful moment, Cary and I hoped Sister Elsie Peak would turn out to be named after Elsie Wheeler, a spiritualist medium whose own story relates to an astrological tool. Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 Hungry for food, Suzanne wanders into the empty trailer of the carnival’s veteran spiritualist and winds up being mistaken for her. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026 The son of an astrologer (who abandoned him early on) and a spiritualist, London lived quite an adventurous life. René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026 Shot in Athens doubling as Tehran, Cast Aside the Clouds has Azizi playing Farhad Khosravi, a bookstore owner whose daughter Layla (Sehat) attends a secret university aligned with the Iranian Bahá’í spiritualist faith. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026 Kilmer appears as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist. Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026 Kilmer was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist. Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2026 The actor will portray Father Fintan, a Native American spiritualist and Catholic priest. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026 The actor was cast in Voorhees’s film years before his death as priest and spiritualist Father Fintan but never had a chance to step on set due to his throat cancer. Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritualist
psychic
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  • Jean remains one of the most powerful psychics in Marvel Comics.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026
  • Orlando Police were flooded with tips, including from psychics, about the disappearances of Jennifer Kesse in 2006 and Michelle Parker in 2011, the research paper said.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2026

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“Spiritualist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritualist. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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