Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who promotes or leads religious revivals.
- noun One who revives practices or ideas of an earlier time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is instrumental in producing or promoting in a community a revival of religious interest and activity: specifically applied to an itinerant preacher who makes this his special work.
- noun In general, one who revives anything, as an old custom, trade, or word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who seeks to
revive something - noun US an
evangelistic preacher - adjective US evangelistic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a preacher of the Christian gospel
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Examples
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Well, he was what they call a revivalist, and he was holding forth one blazin 'hot day out in the sun when all to once he goes down, _flat, _ an' don't come round for the better part o 'two days.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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As a Daptone label project -- and in the age of Saadiq and Barkley -- it could be called "revivalist", save for the fact that Bradley was born in '48 and knows this sound intimately.
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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As a Daptone label project -- and in the age of Saadiq and Barkley -- it could be called "revivalist", save for the fact that Bradley was born in '48 and knows this sound intimately.
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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The flood tide of religious emotionalism ebbed but to flow in other channels? and men who had been so profoundly stirred by the revivalist were the more readily moved by the appeal of the revolutionary orator.
Beginnings of the American People Carl Lotus Becker 1909
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It is not difficult to see how, even in technique, the method of the revivalist is a quasi-sexual method, and resembles the attempt of the male to overcome the sexual shyness of the female.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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Fundamentalist religion also has the same kind of revivalist streak that see in Confucius.
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The media rarely uses more neutral terms such as "revivalist" or "progressives" (Hassan 2).
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There are differences in the four books I reviewed, which is why I attempted to describe their contents separately before commenting upon the "revivalist" position in general.
Is the US Declining? Nye, Joseph S. 1990
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Thus they are unable to reconcile their perception of my work as "revivalist" with my lack of ecstatic effusion for the protagonists and their work.
'The Unhappy Medium': An Exchange Boime, Albert 1982
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What good did come from my first crusade was due chiefly to him; a kind of revivalist spirit was upon him, and many unsuspecting freshers who had only thought of the river as a place to avoid, were unable to resist his entreaties.
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904
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