revivalist

re·viv·al·ist

R0209000 (rĭ-vī′və-lĭst)n.1. One who promotes or leads religious revivals.2. One who revives practices or ideas of an earlier time.

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re·viv′al·ist adj.re·viv′al·is′tic adj.

revivalist

(rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst) n1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a person who holds, promotes, or presides over religious revivals2. a person who revives customs, institutions, ideas, etcadj (Ecclesiastical Terms) of, relating to, or characterizing revivalism or religious revivals: a revivalist meeting. reˌvivaˈlistic adj

re•viv•al•ist

(rɪˈvaɪ və lɪst)

n. 1. a person, esp. a member of the clergy, who holds religious revivals. 2. a person who revives former customs, methods, etc. [1810–20] re•viv`al•is′tic, adj.

Thesaurus

Noun

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revivalist - a preacher of the Christian gospel evangelist, gospeler, gospellerpreacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer - someone whose occupation is preaching the gospeltelevangelist - an evangelist who conducts services on television

Translations

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