revivalist
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və noun
1.
a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
2.
a person who revives former customs, methods, etc.
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revivalist (rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person who holds, promotes, or presides over religious revivals |
| 2. | a person who revives customs, institutions, ideas, etc |
| —adj | |
| 3. | of, relating to, or characterizing revivalism or religious revivals: a revivalist meeting |
| revivalistic | |
| —adj | |
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Revivalist
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Example sentences
The applause was rhythmical and ecstatic, as at a revivalist gathering.
But the revivalist movement is already riven by splits.
For seven years he preached as no revivalist ever preached on this continent.
Less than a hundred people can decipher this writing, he supposed, including probably none of the revivalist thugs.
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