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revivalist

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re·viv·al·ist  (r-vv-lst)
n.
1. One who promotes or leads religious revivals.
2. One who revives practices or ideas of an earlier time.

re·vival·ist adj.
re·vival·istic adj.

revivalist [rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst]
n
1. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a person who holds, promotes, or presides over religious revivals
2. a person who revives customs, institutions, ideas, etc
adj
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) of, relating to, or characterizing revivalism or religious revivals a revivalist meeting
revivalistic  adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.revivalistrevivalist - a preacher of the Christian gospel  
preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer - someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel
televangelist - an evangelist who conducts services on television
Translations
revivalist [rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst]
A. Nevangelista mf; (= preacher) → predicador(a) m/f evangelista
B. CPD revivalist meeting Nreunión f evangelista
revivalist
adjerneuernd; meeting, spirit, preacherder Erweckungsbewegung; revivalist movementErweckungsbewegung f; a revivalist rock groupeine Revival-Rockband
nAnhänger(in) m(f)der Erweckungsbewegung
revivalist [rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst] n (Rel) → revivalista m/f
revivalist [rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst] n (Rel) → revivalista m/f


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A REVIVALIST who had fallen dead in the pulpit from too violent religious exercise was astonished to wake up in Hades.
But of a heritage that may expand gradually, he had no conception: he hoped to come to Culture suddenly, much as the Revivalist hopes to come to Jesus.
You will soon be going about like the converted, and the revivalist, warning people against all the sins of which you have grown tired.
 
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