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revivalist|rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. One who promotes, produces, or takes part in, a religious revival.
1820R. Polwhele Introd. Bp. Lavington's Enthus. of Method. & Papists p. cxiii, The Irish Shouters, the Welsh Jumpers, and the Cornish Revivalists. 1859All Year Round No. 28. 33 Much stress has been laid by the Revivalists..on the decrease of drunkenness..among the converted. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars vi. 272 With the dawn of the thirteenth century came the great revivalists—the friars.
2. One who revives or reintroduces former conditions, methods, etc.
1856Merivale Rom. Emp. lxviii. (1865) VIII. 364 The place they hold between the teaching of the earlier philosophers, and that of the revivalists of the third century. 1870Ruskin Crown Wild Olive ii. (1898) 96 The Revivalist worshipped Beauty of a sort and built you Versailles and the Vatican. a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 349 The error of the French revivalists in selecting an earlier type for their groundwork.
3. attrib. or as adj.
1859All Year Round No. 28. 33 During a Revivalist meeting. 1864Realm 27 Apr. 2 ‘A lay teacher’ appointed by some revivalist clergyman. 1875Rossetti Hood's Poet. Wks. Ser. ii. Pref. p. xvii, A most astonishing example of revivalist poetry: it is reproductive and spontaneous at the same time. 1890Times 20 Dec. 9/3 The Salvation Army as a revivalist agency. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) iii. 30 The ceremonies became famous for their revivalist power and frenzy. 1965G. Melly Owning Up xi. 128 Revivalist jazz was based on the Negro jazz of the 'twenties.
Hence revivaˈlistic a.
1882Macm. Mag. XLVI. 413 What will be the position of this great revivalistic movement in the year 1900? 1886Century Mag. XXXI. 438 Spiritual preaching is reviving; it is not necessarily revivalistic. |