revivalist
[ri-vahy-vuh-list]
- 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
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The Revivalists dismissed this sort of thinking as capitulation.
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But they do not belong to the lover of the beautiful or to the revivalists.
Folklore as an Historical ScienceGeorge Laurence Gomme
Eric Hermannson had long been the object of the prayers of the revivalists.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and EssaysWilla Cather
For the interior of the chapel was dealt with by the Gothic revivalists .
Oxford and its StoryCecil Headlam
The finding of this God is very like what revivalists call "conversion" (p. 21).
God and Mr. WellsWilliam Archer
So far, however, they were not in form or theory Socialists, but only Revivalists.
History of American SocialismsJohn Humphrey Noyes
revivalist
- a person who holds, promotes, or presides over religious revivals
- a person who revives customs, institutions, ideas, etc
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- of, relating to, or characterizing revivalism or religious revivalsa revivalist meeting
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