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
Some revisionary legislation and adaptive is indispensable; but with this should harmoniously work another kind of prudence not unallied with entire magnanimity.
From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville
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