revisionist
Americannoun
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an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
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a reviser.
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any advocate of doctrines, theories, or practices that depart from established authority or doctrine.
adjective
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of or relating to revisionists or revisionism.
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attempting to reevaluate and restate the past based on newly acquired standards.
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Revisionists might see this as the beginning of the end of the hubbub surrounding the early Jim Mora years.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023
Revisionists in the UK and US, such as Chris Thomas and R Alexander Pyron, have recently argued that globalisation is biologically creative rather than destructive.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2018
Revisionists who describe them all as volunteers are “completely wrong”, says Haruki Wada, a former director of Japan’s official compensation fund for the women.
From Economist • Dec. 4, 2014
One Zionist faction that did recognize the dilemma was the Revisionists, led by Jabotinsky, who was born in Odessa and had a reputation as a poet, playwright, novelist, and electrifying polemicist.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014
Most of the pro-Zionist students, myself included, joined a religious Zionist youth group; a few joined the youth arm of the Revisionists.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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