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▪ I. † revenant, n.1 Obs. rare—1.
[a. OF. revenant, f. as next.]
That which is pleasing.
c1440Partonope 3125 Where he fonde alle such semblaunt As he was wont and alle reuenaunt.
▪ II. ‖ revenant, n.2 (and a.)|rəvənɑ̃|
Fem. revenante.
[F., pres. pple. of revenir to return.]
1. One who returns from the dead; a ghost. Also attrib., as adj., and fig.
1827T. J. Dibdin Reminisc. I. vi. 110 She will however frequently make her appearance in this narrative, not as a revenante, but prior to the period of her final departure. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiv, Nor of taking the fatal leap, had my revenant the slightest recollection. 1846Trench Mirac. xxix. 411 note, Lazarus, as a revenant, is often used by the religious romance-writers of the middle ages as a vehicle for their conceptions of the lower world. 1864Lowell Study Windows, Gt. Public Charac., The Opposition to which he belonged [was] a helpless revenant from the dead and buried Colonial past. 1880Shorthouse J. Inglesant II. xiii. 274 The yellow glamour of the sunset..clothed in transparent radiance this shadowy revenant from the tomb. 1909R. Brooke Let. 16 Apr. (1968) 166 It looks a little like Second Childhood, doesn't it? I think it is merely the first, revenant. 1910J. C. Lawson Mod. Greek Folklore & Anc. Greek Relig. 407 If the devil in possession of the corpse chose to agitate it and drive it out of the grave, the dead demoniac was at once a revenant. 1942‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair iii. iii. 91 The papers were full of strange elysiums, cigar-and-whisky empyreans, revenants who reported lawn-tennis tournaments on the pavements of paradise. 1955[see come-back n.2 3]. 1958Times 24 Nov. 12/2 Leonard Salzedo has written the concerto for this revenant among solo instruments. 1968T. Kinsella Nightwalker 11 A revenant, A rain-worn, delicate Stone shape. 1969P. Anderson in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 257 In the closed space of Gombrich's preoccupations, the psychology which was once exorcized is a revenant which necessarily returns to rule. 1970R. Lowell Notebk. 179 (title) Revenants. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 12 May 61/1 In Eastern Europe..thousands of villagers still believe in the malignity of the revenant dead.
2. One who returns to a place.
1886Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew viii, They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin. 1895Daily News 31 Aug. 4/7 The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect. |