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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who promotes or leads religious revivals.
  2. n. One who revives practices or ideas of an earlier time.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who is instrumental in producing or promoting in a community a revival of religious interest and activity: specifically applied to an itinerant preacher who makes this his special work.
  2. n. In general, one who revives anything, as an old custom, trade, or word.

Wiktionary

  1. n. someone who seeks to revive something
  2. n. US an evangelistic preacher
  3. adj. US evangelistic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a preacher of the Christian gospel

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