Emerson
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American writer and philosopher (1803 to 1882) who was the foremost advocate of transcendentalism in the United States.
“The professor quoted Emerson at length in his lecture on nineteenth-century American thought.”
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