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revivalist

[ ri-vahy-vuh-list ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
a person who revives former customs, methods, etc.

First recorded in 1810–20; revival + -ist

Meisel is an EMT, an environmentalist, and an urban revivalist.

Had the political commentator turned tent pole revivalist for good?

It was an evangelical school founded by a well-known revivalist—William Moreton.

In the early days of the war a valued worker on Salisbury Plain was the grandson of a famous Cornish revivalist.

The contagion of a Revivalist meeting is a very mysterious thing.

Representations had been made to the revivalist that, with propriety, he might suspend his ministry for the great day.

Harry Carter, smuggler, privateer and revivalist, was born on a small farm at Pengersick in 1749.

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