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单词 revolutioner
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revolutionern.

Brit. /ˌrɛvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩ə/, /ˌrɛvəˈl(j)uːʃənə/, U.S. /ˌrɛvəˈluʃ(ə)nər/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: revolution n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < revolution n. + -er suffix1. Compare revolutionist n. With sense 3 compare also earlier revolutionizer n. at revolutionize v. Derivatives, revolutionary n.
Now chiefly historical.
1. A person who believes that the soul undergoes a series of revolutions (see revolution n. 6). Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1694 J. Hall Answer to Some Queries propos'd by W.C. 18 How is it possible for Nero who destroy'd the Christians by more than a Hundred kind of Deaths, to suffer Death in so many kinds himself, tho' we should with Helmont grant him Twelve Revolutions? These Revolutioners say that the design of their Hypothesis is to clear the Justice of God in such matters.
2.
a. A supporter or approver of the Glorious Revolution, or of the principles which inspired it.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary > participant in specific revolution
regicide1648
revolutioner1690
sansculotte1790
federate1793
regicide1793
terrorist1794
Thermidorian1801
tricoteuse1828
filibuster1854
nihilist1868
peshmerga1963
1690 W. Sancroft Let. Dec. in N. Tyacke Hist. Univ. Oxf. (1997) IV. v. 356 The Roman power in our lord's time..were not meerly de-facto and usurped powers (as all our revolutioners, and particularly the last most scandalous revolter pretend).
1706 in Maidment Bk. Scot. Pasquils (1868) 372 The staunch Revolutioners pretend all their care is securing religion.
1758 T. Smollett Compl. Hist. Eng. IV. viii. iv. 93 The people were divided into three parties, namely, the Williamites, the Jacobites, and the discontented revolutioners.
1844 T. Stephen Hist. Church Scotl. II. xxvi. 392 The imprudent violence of both the remonstrator and some of the revolutioner ministers, compelled Charles to reinforce his garrisons.
1896 J. Mackinnon Union Eng. & Scot. 374 The Jacobites..exulted in the unanimity of sentiment, which inspired Revolutioner and Cameronian alike.
1977 W. Ferguson Scotland's Relations with Eng. x. 186 Most members of the Court Party passed for Whigs and Revolutioners.
2006 C. A. Whatley Scots & Union iv. 157 A war..waged in defence of the Protestant religion and against popish idolatry, had its supporters in Scotland too, primarily Revolutioners, that is Williamite whigs and presbyterians.
b. A participant in the American Revolution.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > supporter of American cause
rebel1775
Whig1775
blue skin1777
revolutioner1794
1794 C. Stedman Hist. Amer. War II. xli. 348 In which case the resentment of the revolutioners would be exercised with more cruelty.
1835 D. Crockett Acct. Col. Crockett's Tour 52 General Morton is a revolutioner, and an officer in the society of old soldiers called the ‘Cincinnati Society’.
1860 Harper's Mag. Sept. 478/1 There's Simon Backus, who's an old Revolutioner—and they are gitting scarce.
1904 W. Churchill Crossing ii. i. 256 Mr Boone..set out for Redstone, where he was to measure a tract for a Revolutioner.
1989 Independent 29 Apr. 30 Nagle was an ‘old Revolutioner’... He had served under Washington on land and Decatur at sea.
3. gen. A person engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionary. Now rare.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary
innovator1598
revolver1698
revolutionist1710
sansculotte1790
revolutionary1795
revolutionizer1798
revolutioner1803
descamisado1821
radical1822
sansculottist1833
revolutionaire1835
red republican1848
redshirt1889
Bolshevik1926
Young Turk1948
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 351/2 It is but too true, that there have been very honest revolutioners of the most exaggerated sentiments.
1851 Preston Guardian 16 Aug. 6/1 The paper on ‘Soyer's Modern Housewife’ is unfavourable to the pretensions of Soyer as a revolutioner of our cookery.
1922 W. S. Robertson Hist. Lat.-Amer. Nations xvi. 419 He called to his council table some of the most inveterate revolutioners and able publicists of his country.
2001 Business Times (Nexis) 2 Feb. The history of revolutions and reforms show that revolutioners and reformers always end up being the enemy of their own ideals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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