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revivalist

noun

Etymology

From revival + -ist.

  1. derived from *gʷeyh₃-✻ — “to live”
  2. derived from revīvere
  3. derived from revivre — “to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew”
  4. derived from revivre
  5. derived from reviver
  6. inherited from reviven
  7. formed as revival — “revive + -al”
  8. formed as revivalist — “revival + -ist”

Definitions

  1. Someone who seeks to revive something.

    • an Art Deco revivalist
    • And in 1975 one of the hottest Austin ensembles was the posthippie western swing revivalist group known as Asleep at the Wheel.
    • Lynton & Barnstaple Railway revivalists have unexpectedly been given a second chance to purchase the station, after the original sale deal fell through.

  2. An evangelistic preacher.

  3. Evangelistic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at revivalist. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at revivalist. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at revivalist

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA