revivalist
Americannoun
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a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
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a person who revives former customs, methods, etc.
noun
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a person who holds, promotes, or presides over religious revivals
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a person who revives customs, institutions, ideas, etc
adjective
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The history of the Greek Revivalist behemoth at 55 Wall Street, now home to Cipriani, is a history of Manhattan itself.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2016
Revivalist camp meetings held by itinerant Protestant ministers became a feature of nineteenth-century American life.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Revivalist waves are more mysterious still: Why do clusters of young musicians and listeners gravitate to particular bygone sounds at particular times, and is there more to it than nostalgic arrested development?
From Slate • Sep. 12, 2013
The buzz: "This is not the last of The Story, but more appropriately, a very compelling beginning" – The Revivalist.
From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2012
I found recorded some Revivalist Mission Services, which were then held in Cambridge with great success.
From Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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