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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Mr. Howard has come to biography writing after a distinguished career in publishing at Doubleday Books, and he discourses with knowledge and zeal about Cowley’s second act as a revivalist and gatekeeper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
They claimed that this moment would eventually bring about a “Great Awakening,” a reference to the religious revivalist movements of the 18th and 19th centuries.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2025
Mr. Wakefield’s forays outside bluegrass extended into pop territory as well, including a mid-1960s stint with the Greenbriar Boys, an urban folk revivalist group.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Last year's prize was won by girl band Flo, with superstar dance producer Fred Again in second place and drum & bass revivalist Nia Archives placing third.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
Modal melodies, revivalist spirituals, the call-and-response or ‘holler’ songs of African slaves: all of these went into the mixing pot of the early Blues.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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