Whitmanites

Noun

Whitmanite (plural Whitmanites)

1. An admirer or imitator of American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
   • Did I not dispute a whole afternoon with another young man about the necessity for character, only to learn at the end of it that he didn't know what character was. He supposed it was 'something narrow and priggish—like what deacons used to be' And he, mind you, was in his twenties, and claimed...1911 February, Cornelia A. P. Comer, “A Letter to the Rising Generation”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022

   Synonyms:

   Whitmanian

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