Revolutionist
[,revə'ljuːʃənɪst] or [,rɛvə'lʊʃənɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a radical supporter of political or social revolution.
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Definition
(n.) One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.
Editor: Nolan
Examples
- In that spiritual autobiography of a searching mind, The New Machiavelli, Wells describes his progress from a reformer of concrete abuses to a revolutionist in method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Finally, we find in the teaching of that great revolutionist, Jesus of Nazareth, such an attack upon property as had never been before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We were reformers--revolutionists--Nihilists, you understand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Those revolutionists who see the misery of the country as a deliberate and fiendish plot overestimate the bad will, the intelligence and the singleness of purpose in the ruling classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- First it was the paradise of the crackpots and the romantic revolutionists. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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