imaginistn.

1806 Universal Mag. 6 131/2 If..the imaginist designs his Deity in the mellow tints of age..he certainly must err; since the eternal Being can never be supposed susceptible to the influence of time.

1816 J. Austen Emma III. iii. 43 How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight! View more context for this quotation

1835 Monthly Rev. Nov. 410 The first of these [sc. Scribe] is described, by an able French critic, as a mere reflector of the corrupt egoisme of the age—the second [sc. Victor Hugo] as a vivid imaginist of all that is vile and debasing.

1858 J. Brown North-west Passage viii. 167 It conjectured Sir John Franklin would follow the Instructions laid down for his guidance : the imaginists thought he would not.

a1888 H. Traubel Jrnl. 23 Nov. in Century Mag. (1911) Dec. 252/2 Goethe was for beauty, erudition, knowledge, first of all for culture. I doubt if another imaginist of the first order in all literature, all history so deeply put his stamp there.

1941 Philosophy 16 89 Even an imaginist, surely, must admit a certain proportion between evidence and conclusion.

1980 D. Minter W. Faulkner (1982) iv. 73 Together the literary and oral traditions of Faulkner's early years reinforced the dual commitment his experience had fostered, thus helping to make him both an intent realist and an intent imaginist.

1990 J. O'Donoghue B. Moore (1991) i. ii. 31 The second difference is that Judith is an imaginist and self-delusionist; Mr Duffy is the epitome of realism.

1998 D. Postlethwaite in D. Cartmell et al. Sisterhoods vii. 123 The myth-making imaginist of Paradise Lost realises the polar tug of the sacred and the profane.