spasmodistn.
/ˈspazmədɪst/ One whose work is of a spasmodic character or who affects a spasmodic style; a writer of the ‘spasmodic school’.
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a1849 E. A. Poe Marginalia in Wks. (1864) III. 505 De Meyer and the rest of the spasmodists.
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 557 The fine frenzies of the noble new school of Spasmodists.
1878 T. Sinclair Mount 242 Here is the pitfall of the whole school of spasmodists who would make poetry wild ‘speaking i' the air’.
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