revivalist

[ ri-vahy-vuh-list ]

/ rɪˈvaɪ və lɪst /

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noun

a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.

a person who revives former customs, methods, etc.

RELATED WORDS

Nearby words

revisory, revitalize, revival, revival of learning, revivalism, revivalist, revive, revivification, revivify, reviviscence, revivor

Origin of revivalist

First recorded in 1810–20; revival + -ist

Related forms

re·viv·al·is·tic, adjectivenon·re·viv·al·ist, noun

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Examples from the Web for revivalist

Barry was no revivalist; he never attempted to recreate Greek architecture on English soil.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4|Various
His chief nineteenth-century disciple was, as we know, Lahiri Mahasaya, revivalist of the lost Kriya art.
Autobiography of a YOGI|Paramhansa Yogananda
Have I not had one minister an' five deacons an' a revivalist in my family, to say nothin' at all of one composer of hymns?
Contemporary One-Act Plays|Sir James M. Barrie
The contagion of a Revivalist meeting is a very mysterious thing.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge|Arthur Christopher Benson

In the early days of this chapel Mary Crossley, a Revivalist, occasionally preached here.
A History of Horncastle|James Conway Walter

British Dictionary definitions for revivalist

revivalist

/ (rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst) /

noun

a person who holds, promotes, or presides over religious revivals

a person who revives customs, institutions, ideas, etc

adjective

of, relating to, or characterizing revivalism or religious revivalsa revivalist meeting

Derived Forms

revivalistic, adjective

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