Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes in the improvement of society by the spiritual renovation of the individual, supernaturally wrought through divine influence rather than by the development of human nature through purely natural and human influences.
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There’s a similar translation issue in the “kakushin kanryo” 革新官僚 of the 1930s who are sometimes translated as “renovationist bureaucrats” which, although accurate, is more of a mouthful to say than
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