revivalistn.adj.

1803 R. Reece Let. in T. P. Bunting Life of Jabez Bunting (1859) I. ix. 147 If a Revivalist must be supported by one Preacher and two Leaders..when he tramples the rules of our Society under his feet..Revivalism will soon ruin Methodism.

1859 All Year Round 5 Nov. 33 Much stress has been laid by the Revivalists..on the decrease of drunkenness..among the converted.

1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars vi. 272 With the dawn of the thirteenth century came the great revivalists—the friars.

1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday viii. 214 The reporters included..Billy Sunday, the revivalist, and James Mills, the husband of the murdered choir-singer.

1975 Christian Socialist Sept. 3/3 In the past, fear of hell had been one of the chief means by which revivalists had secured mass conversions.

1996 J. Grenfell-Hill Growing up in Wales 74 There was a great deal of singing hymns and shouts of Hallelujahs and praying for forgiveness. After an hour and a half of waiting the Revivalist came and went up to the pulpit.

1837 Foreign Q. Rev. July 390 By moulding the Grecian style to our present purposes,..we should be doing no more than the revivalists of the orders did with respect to Roman architecture.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 349 The error of the French revivalists in selecting an earlier type for their groundwork.

1927 Daily Express 5 Dec. 13 Mr. Kenrick is an ardent ‘revivalist’, and has certainly proved that the public likes to see the old favourites again.

1950 Oxoniensia 15 118 They, the Gothic Revivalists, had got the old dead style on its legs and propped it up, but they could not make it walk.

1989–90 Mod. Painters Winter 56/1 Max Hutchinson..started his term of office with an outspoken attack on..the ‘bimbo architecture’ of the Prince's revivalists.

2000 A. Calcutt Brit Cult 363/1 In existence now for nearly 40 years, the Rolling Stones have been..failed hippies, blues revivalists and pseudo-soul boys.

1824 Cobbett's Weekly Reg. 16 Oct. 177 The advertisement commenced as usual with the name of a new religion, ‘The Revivalist Community’.

1875 D. G. Rossetti Hood's Poet. Wks. 2nd Ser. Pref. p. xvii A most astonishing example of revivalist poetry: it is reproductive and spontaneous at the same time.

1900 T. M. Lindsay Luther & German Reformation i. 14 They [sc. divine thoughts] are embedded..in the sermons of her great revivalist preachers.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) iii. 30 The ceremonies became famous for their revivalist power and frenzy.

1986 House & Garden July 40/3 This revivalist table has a black glass top.

2006 E.E. Guffey Retro iii. 98 The rock-'n'-roll revivalist group Sha Na Na bombarded the audience with..1950s classics.