revivalist

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
SEE Newman, Ernest NEWTON, ROGER HALE Town & Davis, Architects; pioneers in American revivalist architecture 1812-1870, including a glimpse of their times and their contemporaries 20Apr42; A163474.

View all »
Definitions (6)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

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

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • He was not a revivalist, nor was his co-laborer, yet there were a goodly number added to the Lord during the year. —  Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
  • Hutchinson's fame as a revivalist began to spread abroad, and many neighborhoods where there were a few Disciples, and who were anxious to build themselves into a congregation, sent for him to come and help them; and thus our churches rapidly grew in number, and our acquaintance with the brethren was greatly extended. —  Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
  • He made violent speeches in Columbus Circle, where he lost his audience to revivalist orators; Union Square, where he was told heatedly to bring his message to Wall Street; and Times Square, where the police made him move along so he wouldn't block traffic. —  OCTOBER, 1953 Vol
  • Throwing up her hands and collapsing to her knees like an old-time revivalist, Patience screamed: “My Lord!” She pressed her hands theatrically over her heart, but such was the shock registered on her face, Anna guessed the gesture was unplanned. —  Barr, Nevada - [Anna Pigeon 02] A Superior Death v1.0 HTML
  • Such extraordinary spiritual experiences occurred quite often during his career as a revivalist, and they remind one strikingly of similar experiences of John Bunyan—to whom Finney bore a certain degree of resemblance. —  Recollections of a Long Life
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 22 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/rəˈvaɪvəlɪst/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

gluttony · pantheon · mad-cap · loquacious · Sherlock

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

wub wub · merch · these grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor