Revivalist

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  • noun. One who promotes or leads religious revivals.
  • noun. One who revives practices or ideas of an earlier time.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who is instrumental in producing or promoting in a community a revival of religious interest and activity: specifically applied to an itinerant preacher who makes this his special work.
  • noun. In general, one who revives anything, as an old custom, trade, or word.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. someone who seeks to revive something
  • noun. an evangelistic preacher
  • adjective. evangelistic
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a preacher of the Christian gospel
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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