revivalist
[ri-vahy-vuh-list]
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
evangelist, pastor, preacher, messenger, clergy, teacher, cleric, missionary, televangelist, apostle, missioner, promoter, herald, propagandist, minister, converter, parson, divine, ecclesiastic, reverend
Origin of revivalist
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Examples from the Web for revivalist
Historical Examples of revivalist
When it was finished, the preacher sat down beside the revivalist.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
Some had evidently come from afar, for the fame of the revivalist was widespread.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
In this instance it was hard to say which was the more surprised, the revivalist or the congregation.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
He was a Methodist preacher—a revivalist—and did his own exhorting.
Personal Recollections of a CavalrymanJ. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
He must be some revivalist who has gone insane on one point.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908Lucy Maud Montgomery
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