Reconstructionist
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Reconstructionist
1860–65, reconstruction ( def. ) + -ist
Example Sentences
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With a full band accompanying the Reconstructionist congregation’s services, the tone was one of joy, reunion and celebration.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
The Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle lost one of their former congregants on Oct.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2023
The Tree of Life congregation, founded in Pittsburgh more than 150 years ago, and the smaller New Light congregation are both conservative; the third congregation, Dor Hadash, is Reconstructionist, a progressive movement within Judaism.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023
Guila Franklin Siegel had already been planning to talk with seventh- and eighth-graders about antisemitism on Sunday morning at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2022
His own heart breaking, and life ebbing, he writes of Spring as the true Reconstructionist, and pleads her message to his stricken people.
From The Poems of Henry Timrod by Timrod, Henry
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