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Cor·y·bant

 (kôr′ə-bănt′, kŏr′-)
n. pl. Cor·y·bants or Cor·y·ban·tes (-băn′tēz′) Greek Mythology
A priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele whose rites were celebrated with music and ecstatic dances.

Cor′y·ban′tic adj.
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Corybant

(ˈkɒrɪˌbænt)
n, pl Corybants or Corybantes (ˌkɒrɪˈbæntiːz)
(Classical Myth & Legend) classical myth a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
[C14: from Latin Corybās, from Greek Korubas, probably of Phrygian origin]
ˌCoryˈbantian, ˌCoryˈbantic, ˌCoryˈbantine adj
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Cor•y•bant

(ˈkɔr əˌbænt, ˈkɒr-)

n., pl. Cor•y•ban•tes (ˌkɔr əˈbæn tiz, ˌkɒr-) Cor•y•bants.
a priest or votary of Cybele.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Corybant-, s. of Corybās < Greek Korýbās]
cor`y•ban′tic, adj.
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First of all, forget that "maelstrom." This is not some sort of cultural panorama of fin de siecle America, with William James as Corybant or coryphaeus of a band of wild-eyed "modernists." (James died in 1910, the same year as Mark Twain, long before voices like Ezra Pound or Gertrude Stein or Hart Crane began to be heard.) Richardson, who has done solid biographies of Emerson and Thoreau, offers us a splendid full-length portrait of a thinker who in many ways was not a modernist (his lifelong attachment to religion, his conservative personal values, his indebtedness to John Stuart Mill and the utilitarian tradition), but whose lucidity, compassion, fairness, wit, and all-American gusto make him, nearly a century after his death, one our country's great father-figures.
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