revivalist Definition
re·viv·al·ist (-ist)
noun
- a person who promotes or conducts religious revivals
- a person who revives former ways, institutions, etc.
revivalist Related Forms
re·viv′·al·is′·tic adjective
revivalist Synonyms
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.
Browse dictionary entries near revivalist
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- ‹ revised statutes
- ‹ Revised Standard Version
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