Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who favors or supports revision, as in the case of a creed or a statute.
- noun A reviser; specifically, one of the revisers of the English version of the Bible. See
revised version of the Bible, under version.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
revisionism - noun A proponent of
revisionism
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- noun a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since almost all social democratic parties have long since abandoned any claim to Marxist revolutionary orthodoxy, the label revisionist hardly applies to them any longer; the con - tinuity in regarding revisionism as a form of bourgeois ideology within the socialist camp has been maintained.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968
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When we use the term revisionist, however, we generally mean something more fundamental: a writer who tries to change the reader's mind in a major way by providing a new general interpretation, one that sharply and thoroughly reexamines the established way of looking at a matter.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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When we use the term revisionist, however, we generally mean something more fundamental: a writer who tries to change the reader's mind in a major way by providing a new general interpretation, one that sharply and thoroughly reexamines the established way of looking at a matter.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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When we use the term revisionist, however, we generally mean something more fundamental: a writer who tries to change the reader's mind in a major way by providing a new general interpretation, one that sharply and thoroughly reexamines the established way of looking at a matter.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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When we use the term revisionist, however, we generally mean something more fundamental: a writer who tries to change the reader's mind in a major way by providing a new general interpretation, one that sharply and thoroughly reexamines the established way of looking at a matter.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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But over the years, I just want to be sure that we don't get engaged in what I call revisionist history.
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You can call it revisionist history and no one can argue that it gives only one viewpoint.
A Progressive on the Prairie » R.I.P. Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 » Print 2010
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You can call it revisionist history and no one can argue that it gives only one viewpoint.
R.I.P. Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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They have to face it, and will eventually since their current stand is based in revisionist lies (and anyone, people or country, that bases his/her/its actions on lies is in for a though time when reality checks ...).
Obama avoids labeling massacres of Armenians 'genocide' 2010
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Anybody who uses terms like “intelligence failure” is ignoring these facts and engaging in revisionist history.
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