Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who favors or is engaged in a revolution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who desires or endeavors to effect a social or political revolution; one who takes part in a revolution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
revolts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a radical supporter of political or social revolution
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Examples
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The revolutionist is no starved and diseased slave in the shambles at the bottom of the social pit, but is, in the main, a hearty, well - fed workingman, who sees the shambles waiting for him and his children and recoils from the descent.
Revolution 2010
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Yet, so unpractical was Berkman that he could not realize that a well nourished revolutionist is a more efficient revolutionist.
Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards 2010
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Her early history as a revolutionist is exceptional even in the minds of the Russians, and they have grown used to great martyrs.
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The revolutionist is no starved and diseased slave in the shambles at the bottom of the social pit, but is, in the main, a hearty, well - fed workingman, who sees the shambles waiting for him and his children and recoils from the descent.
Revolution 1910
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There is so much ill-considered use of the word revolutionist, we should bear in mind it is a strictly relative term.
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Accordingly they were represented as being guilty of blasphemy and slander, and as being adorers of a certain French revolutionist, named Lepaux, of whom Lamb, at all events, was entirely ignorant.
Charles Lamb Cornwall, Barry 1866
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Accordingly they were represented as being guilty of blasphemy and slander, and as being adorers of a certain French revolutionist, named Lepaux, of whom Lamb, at all events, was entirely ignorant.
Charles Lamb Barry Cornwall 1830
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By the end of my second month in prison, one of the jailers made himself known as a revolutionist in touch with the organization.
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The revolutionist is a person doomed obrechennyi, in older usage signifying also “consecrated”.
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The revolutionist is a person doomed He has no personal interests, no business affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property, and no name.
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