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Of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg in 1688), Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian. examples
plural Swedenborgians
A religious follower of Emanuel Swedenborg. quotations examples
As Kirkpatrick worked, Otto Hahn - an intensely patriotic German lawyer and amateur petrologist turned Swedenborgian who believed life originated in outer space - was spending long hours staring down his microscope at what he took to be the fossilised remnants of algae.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76