revivalist

[ ri-vahy-vuh-list ]

/ rɪˈvaɪ və lɪst /

noun

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

a person who revives former customs, methods, etc.

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Origin of revivalist

First recorded in 1810–20; revival + -ist

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

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Examples from the Web for revivalists

The Revivalists dismissed this sort of thinking as capitulation.
New Obama Book's Revelations|Richard Wolffe|November 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The finding of this God is very like what revivalists call "conversion" (p. 21).
God and Mr. Wells|William Archer
We've set her thinking; she's 'under conviction,' as the revivalists used to say.
The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop|Hamlin Garland
After the immoral mania of these revivalists went out of fashion, calling up spirits and demons grew popular among the great.
Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. I (of III)|C. F. Lachelles Wraxall

But the people around made no more fun of them than revivalists make of a preacher and a new convert.
What Will People Say?|Rupert Hughes
Where are the old evangelists, the revivalists who swayed the hearts of their hearers with words of flame?
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12)|Robert G. Ingersoll

British Dictionary definitions for revivalists

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 Formsrevivalistic, adjective

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