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harmonist en · NOUN

Etymology

From harmony + -ist. Compare French harmoniste.

Meanings

1. 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:
2. One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a composer.

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