单词 | revisionist |
释义 | revisionistadj.n. A. adj. (attributive). 1. That advocates or supports revision; spec. (frequently with capital initial) that advocates the revision of Marxism on evolutionary socialist or pluralist principles. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > attitudes or policies > one who revisionist1850 opportunist1902 social chauvinist1918 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > [adjective] > revisionist revisionist1888 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [adjective] > other types of socialism societarian1822 Saint-Simonian1830 Saint-Simonite1831 democratic socialist1848 social democratic1848 social democratic1849 social democratic1850 internationalist1871 social democrat1874 state socialist1882 utopian socialist1884 scientific socialist1887 state-capitalistic1896 revisionist1903 state capitalist1904 liberal1955 1850 Morning Chron. 16 Sept. 2/6 Forty-nine councils have come to decisions, which the revisionist party [sc. those wishing to revise the French constitution] claim for themselves. 1866 Church Times 17 Feb. The Revisionist party states its opinion [etc.]. 1888 Times 1 Oct. 5/4 The calling together of a Revisionist Congress. 1903 Social-Democrat 7 97 Thus, the so-called democratising of industry through the company makes for the Social Revolution, and renders Revisionist Socialism impossible. 1961 Listener 30 Nov. 905/2 Much fruitful thinking is now going on within the framework of revisionist Marxism about the kind of relation which exists between basis and superstructure. 1974 Times 18 Feb. 7/2 Their local Communist Party committees should carry out reforms aimed at preventing the growth of ‘revisionist’ tendencies. 1997 Harper's Mag. June 57/3 The more deadly of the two is the infamous Shining Path, unique among Latin guerrillas in that it despises Che as just another ‘revisionist dog’ like Fidel Castro. 2. Frequently with capital initial. That supports Zionist Revisionism (see revisionism n. 3). See also Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Arab and Middle East politics > [adjective] > specific policy or party in Israel revisionist1925 Rafi1965 1925 Zionist Rev. 9 48/1 The Radical and the Revisionist Opposition. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. 259 A Revisionist doctor makes his living on Revisionist patients, goes to Revisionist cafés and frequents only Revisionist circles. 1966 Middle Eastern Stud. 2 184 This policy was supported privately by the Revisionist leader, V. Jabotinsky. 1988 H. Watzman tr. D. Grossman Yellow Wind (1989) ix. 99 The Herut Party, founded by Jabotinsky's disciple Menahem Begin, is the Israeli successor to the Revisionist movement. 3. Esp. of a historian: that is a revisionist (sense B. 1b); (of a proposition, argument, or work) that revises, or promotes revision of, an accepted or established version of historical phenomena and events.Now the most common sense. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [adjective] > of types of history > of historians, theories, or styles Whig1729 Whiggish1890 revisionist1926 Toynbeean1935 1926 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 13 417 The revelations resulting from the opening of the archives..and the works of revisionist historians of Europe and America. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Oct. 10/3 The ‘revisionist’ historian of the war has transferred the responsibility for that great tragedy from the shoulders of the German military autocracy to those of M. Poincaré. 1969 Amer. Notes & Queries Oct. 31/2 It is ‘revisionist’ history in the finest sense, a wholly new interpretation of the sources. 1977 Time 30 May 4/3 The recent cluster of ‘revisionist’ books on Nazism, which would soften the frightening teachings of this maniacal movement. 1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 22 Revisionist historians notwithstanding, these people were staunch Calvinists. 1997 P. Burke in R. Porter Rewriting the Self (Introd.) 9 Some of the revisionist accounts below..accentuate the darker side..of former philosophies of the self. 2006 Oxf. Amer. Spring 141/1 There's a revisionist myth that it was the diplomats..who deserved the real credit for breaking down the color barriers in the South. B. n. 1. A proponent of revision or revisionism. a. A person who advocates revision of a system, theory, etc.; spec. a supporter of Marxist revisionism (revisionism n. 1). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > [noun] > revisionism > one who revisionist1851 1851 Times 27 May 6/1 [In a proposition for revising the French constitution] to avoid any collision between the total and the partial revisionists..nothing beyond the word ‘revision’ should be employed. 1865 Reader No. 151. 567/3 The Revisionists and the ultra-Ritualists. 1884 Spectator 4 Oct. 1305/2 The more impatient political revisionists among ourselves should..reflect,—and hesitate. 1903 Times 29 Sept. 3/5 The discussion of Herr Bebel's suppression of the revisionists is continued in the Socialist Press. 1918 J. Spargo Social Democracy Explained viii. 240 The revisionists..rely, in this argument, upon the hypothesis of a sudden transformation from capitalism to Socialism, the very thing they have declared to be inconceivable. 1949 R. K. Merton Social Theory 115 The fallacious premise..found also in the writings of such Freudian revisionists as Fromm, that the structure of society primarily restrains the free expression of man's fixed native impulses. 1957 Observer 27 Oct. 6/2 The purge will be used to root out..the ‘revisionists’ who evince a negative attitude towards the Soviet Union. 2001 M. Ruotsila Brit. & Amer. Anticommunism before Cold War viii. 142 The revisionists assumed that socialism could be developed from the existing capitalist system. b. Originally U.S. A person who questions or revises a previously accepted version of historical phenomena or events.In early use applied to historians who, in the decade following the First World War (1914–18), began to question the attribution of sole responsibility for the conflict to Germany. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history > student or supporter of archaeologist1656 archaeologian1795 archaeologer1828 medievalist1855 Assyriologist1865 Hibernologista1869 Assyriologue1880 Sumerologist1888 Byzantinist1892 revisionist1925 prehistorian1936 Hittitologist1948 proto-historian1949 Islamicist1951 1925 Jrnl. Social Forces 3 368/1 Examining the documentary evidence as to the immediate responsibility for the World War, he concludes that he cannot accept the view of such Germanic revisionists as Montegalas on at least three points. 1929 Amer. Hist Rev. 34 337 If Professor Fay be called a ‘revisionist’ some new word must be coined for those who believe that the war arose from a Franco-Russian conspiracy. 1930 Time & Tide 6 Sept. 1125/2 Professor Barnes is what is known as a ‘revisionist’, in other words, an exponent of historical views on this subject, almost completely reversing those dominant in England and America eleven years ago. 1962 M. Josephson Robber Barons p. vi To the revisionists of our history our old-time moneylords ‘were not robber barons but architects of material progress’. 1983 J. Potter Good King Richard? xxvi. 255 In 1956 this..body was re-constituted..under the title of the Richard III Society, and revisionists began to call themselves Ricardians. 2000 Times 12 Jan. i. 3/1 David Irving..has been branded in the past as a revisionist and even a neo-Nazi who has sought to diminish or even deny the Hitler regime's greatest crime. c. Frequently with capital initial. A supporter of Zionist Revisionism (see revisionism n. 3). ΚΠ 1927 H. E. Fosdick Pilgrimage to Palestine xii. 288 Some [Zionists] are revisionists, trying to force Britain's hand and compel aggressive action towards making Jews the dominant political power. 1967 C. Potok Chosen xiii. 226 Every shade of Zionist thought was represented..from the Revisionists, who supported the Irgun, to the Neturai Karta, the Guardians of the City..Jerusalem. 1977 Time 30 May 10/2 The Zionist-Revisionists, a group of right wing militants who condemned the regular Zionist leadership as misguided and soft. 2009 Palestine Chron. (Nexis) 10 Feb. Divisions characterized Zionists from the start. Herzl, Chaim Weizmann (Israel's first president) and Moshe Sharett..favored reconciliation with the Arab world. Revisionists, on the other hand, were hard line. 2. Usually in plural. A reviser of a text, esp. the Bible. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > [noun] > revisers of revisionist1852 1852 Millennial Harbinger 2 206 Neither the more sonorous and elegant Latinities of [Campbell]..nor the combination of them both, with less taste and vigor, by Doddridge, and other modern revisionists, win my admiration. 1881 Q. Rev. Oct. 309 The result at which the Revisionists of the New Testament have arrived. 1885 E. S. Ffoulkes Primitive Consecration ii. 16 The Revisionists much more correctly translate [etc.]. 1920 I. M. Price Ancestry Eng. Bible ix. 77 The Septuagint..before the preparation of the editions of Origen or the later revisionists already described. 1972 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 14 The revisionists are well aware that in tampering with the Prayer Book they are embarked on a critical operation. 2007 J. S. Reiley Not Walking on Water i. 19 The collection of Bible revisionists..[at the Second Council of Constantinople] were commissioned to make a version of the Bible to which everyone could relate. Compounds Revisionist Zionism n. = revisionism n. 3. ΚΠ 1943 Foreign Affairs 22 165 This posthumous work by the late leader of Revisionist Zionism consists of writings in which he sought to show that the evacuation of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe to Palestine was the only way to prevent their extermination. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Oct. 21/1 [He] has long been an advocate of Revisionist Zionism, which demands the establishment..of a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River. 2000 D. B. Burrell in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 346/1 Jabotinsky, whose ‘revisionist Zionism’ inspires the Israeli right. Revisionist Zionist n. an advocate of the radical Zionism of the Revisionists (see sense B. 1c). ΚΠ 1947 Internat. Affairs 23 271 The book seems to have been prepared as a weapon in the war between the Revisionist Zionists and..the saner advocates of Political Zionism. 1990 G. Krupey in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture 295 A Moslem mosque sits on the real estate upon which he plans to rebuild the Temple, the third and most important goal of the Revisionist (far right) Zionists. 2005 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 31 Aug. 6 Party hardliners who have clung to the dogma of Israel's Revisionist Zionists, a forerunner to the Likud that aspired to establish Jewish sovereignty over all the biblical land of Israel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1850 |
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