(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(2) One key question in coming months will be the influence on the new government of the vast conservative Hindu revivalist organisation where Modi started his career as an activist.
(3) And you could also draw comparisons with the likes of the Coral and other psychedelic Scousers (hallucinogenic pop being historically loved by Liverpudlians ), but they were revivalists, too, so they don't count as contemporary.
(4) Hardcore punk revivalists Loom are releasing a limited-edition album on cassette this month, featuring covers of 80s bands such as Jesus Lizard and Bad Brains.
(5) A former organiser in the country's biggest Hindu revivalist organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he has been accused of failing to stop, or even encouraging, riots in which 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in Gujarat shortly after he took power there.
(6) It was an agglomeration of political blocs and elites: beside the entire transitional presidential council and the Justice and Development bloc, there were three senior Hashidi brothers, two major sheikhs from the Bakil tribal grouping, two senior members of the Awlaki tribe, Generals Ali Muhsin Salih and Ali Uliwa, and a plethora of other established political actors (although not the Zaydi revivalist Huthis).
(7) The decision followed accusations that the former organiser for a rightwing Hindu revivalist organisation had stood by, or even encouraged rioters, during sectarian violence in the western state of Gujarat in 2002, when he was chief minister.
(8) However, he won fame above all as a writer of popular literature and tracts, thus exercising a great influence on the revivalist movement at the end of the 18th century.
(9) The BJP has its origins in the nationalist and religious revivalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), or National Volunteer Association, but has tried to distance itself from the more hardline elements in recent months.
(10) It's like being an atheist at a revivalist meeting.
(11) "We try and be adventurous but not to be overbearing, but then again we'd hate to be trapped by some revivalist tag, whatever it might be, because that's not what we're about.
(12) The young men are from the Bajrang Dal, a youth organisation dedicated to advancing a rigorous and revivalist version of Hinduism .
(13) We definitely represent the Hindu community and we feel confident and strong.” Some commentators say the new Indian government, in power since May and led by a prime minister, Narendra Modi , whose political origins lie in a hardline Hindu revivalist organisation, has inadvertently encouraged an intolerant atmosphere.
(14) The efforts for the establishment of this school were gradually conjoined with the national-revivalist and national-liberation movement.
(15) Corbynmania storms Scotland – part revivalist fervour, part Spinal Tap Read more My brother John, aged 60, is among them.
(16) The popularity of revivalist, if quietist and apolitical, groups such as the Tablighi Jamaat as well as a steady flow of young French Muslims to Egypt or Gulf States to study in religious schools was a serious concern, but major protests in 2006 following the publication of cartoons supposedly ridiculing Mohammed were entirely peaceful.
(17) Work and the ‘glass floor’ should top Labour’s agenda | Letters Read more One thing the welfare bill accomplishes is to put people who have failed a fitness to work test on to the same payment as people who have passed it, like some tent-revivalist preacher tipping sinners out of wheelchairs and screaming “Walk!” Who would have thought that electing people who hate the welfare state to run our welfare state could go so badly?
(18) Taking place at the end of September, it features five dozen bands, from straight revivalists employing standard psych tropes – swirly melodics, phased vocals – to exponents who stretch the definition of the term, acknowledging the past but accommodating more recent innovations.
(19) Click here to view As a band playing loud, angular guitar music in 2014, Speedy Ortiz have, inevitably, been pegged as 90s alt-rock revivalists.
(20) In recent years; however, there has emerged a revivalistic movement in the realm of Chinese medical care.
Revive
Definition:
(v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
(v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
(v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
(v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
(v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
(v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
Example Sentences:
(1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(2) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(5) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
(6) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(7) Fear of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and other blood-transmitted diseases has created a revival of autologous transfusion during cardiac surgery.
(8) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(9) The present data further demonstrate that a subpopulation of B cells which were functionally deleted during aging can be revived in vivo with 7m8oGuo.
(10) While the results reflect antiandrogenic and antispermatogenic action of V. rosea, the selective retention of the spermatogonia provides scope for the much desired revival of spermatogenesis on cessation of the treatment.
(11) The definition of the blurring of narrow beam rotation radiography is revived.
(12) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
(13) It has been the UK's view that a violation of Iraq's obligations under resolution 687 which is sufficiently serious to undermine the basis of the ceasefire can revive the authorisation to use force in resolution 678.
(14) Earlier this month China devalued its currency in a move aimed at reviving its slowing economy.
(15) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
(16) The Times editor, James Harding, recently decided to revive the supplement following reader complaints at his decision to scrap it seven months earlier .
(17) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
(18) Ukraine peace process: leaders agree roadmap to revive talks Read more By far the biggest shock, however, has been just how much money Ukraine’s politicians seem to stash away in hard cash.
(19) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(20) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.