revisionism
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8.2
- noun
- /rɪˈvɪʒənɪzəm/
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revisionismo
- In discussions about history, revisionism often sparks intense debate among scholars.
- Holocaust revisionism
- historical revisionism
- survivalist revisionism
Look, I'm not big on revisionism in general.
- Look, I'm not big on revisionism in general.
Examples
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Such specificity is necessary to prevent analysis from degenerating into frivolous revisionism.
Academic text (2005) -
But on the other hand, recognizing that in its more extreme manifestations, revisionism is almost wilfully short sighted as an interpretation.
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Look, I'm not big on revisionism in general.
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And so this was not, and, and I think there's a little bit of revisionism that goes on about this.
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To be sure, revisionism does give more attention to Jesus than apocalypticism does.
Academic text (1994) -
I'm very much against chronological revisionism.
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Yet some startling revisionism has recently crept into that hypothesis.
Academic text (2001) -
Hence, Japanese historical revisionism and Taiwan-centric nationalism found each other in a comfortable alliance against the common Chinese enemy.
Academic text (2014) -
Historical revisionism challenges widely accepted interpretations of past events.
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The documentary presented a form of revisionism that sought to reinterpret the causes of the war.
Synonyms
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6.2
A new meaning people give to something like a song or story
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7.9
A change to the accepted story of past events
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Etymology
Revisionism comes from the verb revise, where re- means 'again' and the whole word means 'to look at or change something'. So in history and ideas, revisionism is the practice of re-examining accepted views and telling them in a new way.