revivalist
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6.8
- noun
- /rɪˈvaɪvəlɪst/
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revivalista
- Many young musicians are becoming revivalists, bringing back the sounds of classic rock to a new audience.
- blues revivalists
Examples
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It makes sense to regard the trennes as an example of this revivalist mode.
Academic text (2001) -
She also plays with the vintage Asian garage pop revivalist band Dzian!
Blog text (14) -
Lower Broadway revivalist Greg Garing's "Down Past the Bottom" may be the best track on the album.
Blog text (7) -
Unlike many other blues revivalists, though, he was prepared to follow the facts where they led him, even when they cut against the grain of his personal preferences.
Academic text (2010) -
The revivalists; they say you can only play music the way it sounded… … originally in New Orleans.
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Revivalists were therefore well aware that the fight against the dazzling modern letter had to be waged on fields of type design and print practice simultaneously.
Academic text (2017) -
Contrary to our initial expectations, support for the revivalist surge appeared steady throughout the first eleven degrees of the continuum, subsiding only in the final degree (predisposition to violence).
Academic text (2001) -
In recapitulating the design principles from the early days of print, revivalists interrogated the intimate details of type to understand how they could prevent such distractions from arising and thereby better manage readerly attention.
Academic text (2017) -
Edwards is best known for his reasoned defense of evangelical Calvinism, yet he was an equally powerful revivalist who hovered above contorting bodies and rapturous groans.
Academic text (2005) -
For example, the chair featuring heraldic birds in Figure 14 is representative of a popular revivalist neo-Hispano-Baroque style, a specialization of artisans from the Goan area of India's western coast during the nineteenth century.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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5.6
A person who holds strongly to old customs and resists change
A person who wants to bring back old ways in a modern setting
A person who uses old words and styles in speech or writing on purpose
How Restorative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Revivalist comes from re- 'again' and vivere 'to live', the same root you see in survive. So a revivalist can be a person who brings old styles or traditions 'back to life', for example by restoring music, crafts, or fashion from the past.