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Definition of "revivalist" [re•viv•al•ist]

  • One who promotes or leads religious revivals. (noun)
  • One who revives practices or ideas of an earlier time. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "revivalist" in a sentence
  • "Well, he was what they call a revivalist, and he was holding forth one blazin 'hot day out in the sun when all to once he goes down, _flat, _ an' don't come round for the better part o 'two days."
  • "As a Daptone label project -- and in the age of Saadiq and Barkley -- it could be called "revivalist", save for the fact that Bradley was born in '48 and knows this sound intimately."
  • "The flood tide of religious emotionalism ebbed but to flow in other channels? and men who had been so profoundly stirred by the revivalist were the more readily moved by the appeal of the revolutionary orator."