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revivalist Definition

re·viv·al·ist (-ist)

noun

  1. a person who promotes or conducts religious revivals
  2. a person who revives former ways, institutions, etc.

revivalist Related Forms

re·viv′·al·is·tic adjective

revivalist Synonyms

revivalist

n.

revivalist Usage Examples

Preposition: of

century: This image of the peaceful sage would be seized upon and adopted by the Druid revivalists of the 18th century.

Possessives

Adjective modifier

  • great: Sir Ninian was the last of the great Gothic Revivalists.
  • Gothic: Sir Ninian was the last of the great Gothic Revivalists.
  • 60's: The 60's revivalists Invisible Lead Soup have a new single out at the moment.
  • 80s: Indeed their uncompromising attitude and widescreen vision makes the current crop of 80s new wave revivalists look distinctly underpowered.
  • old: It feels like an ` ` old-fashioned ' ' subject; the kind of thing the old revivalists used to talk about.

Modifies a noun

  • preacher: The parish church is the burial place of Billy Bray, the revivalist preacher.
  • movement: This is why Islamic revivalist movements like the Taliban tend to revert to the cultural trappings of the dark ages.
  • meeting: Closing the morning session, Jim Coulson remarked that he had felt rather like attending a timber revivalist meeting!
  • group: The revivalist group led by Bourne had become known as ' Camp Meeting Methodists ' .
  • style: Red Cross Cottages were designed by Elijah Hoole in a Tudor revivalist style.
  • action: The London architects leading a rearguard Gothic revivalist action.

Noun used with modifier

  • folk: The younger generation, tho, doesn't realize how much it owes to American and British folk revivalists of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • ska: In the U.K. , ska revivalists influenced both Britpop bands like Blur and trip-hop artists like Tricky.
  • century: Torrey's understanding came from his revivalist views along with D.L. Moody and other late 19th century revivalist.
  • Druid: This image of the peaceful sage would be seized upon and adopted by the Druid revivalists of the 18th century.
  • rock: Prior to Screamadelica, Primal Scream were Stonesy classic rock revivalists with a penchant for Detroit rock.