revisionary
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The Guggenheim Museum offers a revisionary chapter about the start of modern abstraction in its current headliner, “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future,” introducing works that this Swedish artist and mystic made in 1906-7.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018
That’s why “we can’t ever push the revisionary envelope too far.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 25, 2018
Gaggle's revival of The Dark and the Brilliant is an ephemeral, revisionary, consciously political music-making process – and it's one that's being undertaken without a finishing line in sight.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2010
In many ways, this is a revisionary study for those who already know their Larkin.
From Washington Post
And the patron, as necessity requires, if property is to be protected, has, in all circumstances, the revisionary power.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
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