Crossword clues for revenant
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who returns," especially after a long absence; "a ghost," 1814 (in "Rosanne" by Laetitia Matilda Hawkins), from French revenant (fem. revenante), noun use of present participle of revenir "to return" (see revenue).
Wiktionary
a. (non-gloss definition: Used as an adjective.) n. 1 Someone who returns from a long absence. 2 A person or thing reborn. 3 A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or typical of a revenant; "revenant shrieks and groans"
coming back; "a revenant ghost" [syn: recurring]
n. a person who returns after a lengthy absence
someone who has returned from the dead
Wikipedia
A revenant is a visible ghost or animated corpse that is believed to have returned from the grave to terrorize the living. The word revenant is derived from the Latin word reveniens, "returning" (see also the related French verb revenir, meaning "to come back").
Vivid stories of revenants arose in Western Europe (especially Great Britain, and were later carried by Anglo-Norman invaders to Ireland) during the High Middle Ages. Revenants were also known in old Irish Celtic mythology as the . Though later legend and folklore depict revenants as returning for a specific purpose (e.g., revenge against the deceased's killer), in most Medieval accounts they return to harass their surviving families and neighbours. Revenants share a number of characteristics with folkloric vampires.
Many stories were documented by English historians in the Middle Ages. William of Newburgh wrote in the 1190s, "It would not be easy to believe that the corpses of the dead should sally (I know not by what agency) from their graves, and should wander about to the terror or destruction of the living, and again return to the tomb, which of its own accord spontaneously opened to receive them, did not frequent examples, occurring in our own times, suffice to establish this fact, to the truth of which there is abundant testimony."
Revenant is an action role-playing video game by Cinematix Studios, released in 1999 by the publisher Eidos Interactive.
Revenant is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the revenant is a type of fictional monster.
Usage examples of "revenant".
Revenantl Well, well, welll I should have you shot for that, my boyl Well, well, well, welll The Revenant.
The North Steeple would be left in silence for a season or two, at least until the concentration of revenants, eidolons, and ghosts of the dead ensnared by the architecture grew too dense again, and then North would soldier through in bitter silence until the psychopomp again appeared.
After the psychopomp had gone, though, there were still revenants remaining.
Ecolitans were replaced by the Eco-topians, who sent Trystin Desoll on an assassination mission against a theocratic empire, the Revenants, only to watch him end the war in quite another way.
North was for following a different route to the upper reaches or, better yet, ending their expedition there and then, returning to the roof and leaving the single remaining revenant for some other time--the Roofman did not mention his unsettling affection for the shade of the young woman.
Guillermo was a deeply religious man, and as such, he knew that ghosts and malignant revenants and specters did not, could not be.
Her right arm was warm and drowsy to the tips of the fingers, like a revenant of her former self, the child unacquainted with death-aneled of numbness as if her blood had become chrism.
Revenant did willfully break and enter into the Blessed Haven compound&hellip.
Chase ordered a double rum ration, hung out a larger studdingsail that the sailmaker had stitched, and watched the Revenant on the northwestern horizon.
Black still didn't know that Revenant had entered Black's mind every night, putting the dreams into his mind, had made him wake screaming night after night, and driven him almost to the brink of psychosis so that when Judas explained what had happened to him and how the Order could make the dreams go away, the Masons would seem the only possible answer.
Trystin listened, hoping behind the faint smile on his face that his redesigned mission would shake up the almost blind faith of the Revenants.