Crossword clues for revivalist
revivalist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revivalist \Re*viv"al*ist\, 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.
Wiktionary
a. (context US English) evangelistic n. 1 someone who seeks to revive something 2 (context US English) an evangelistic preacher
WordNet
n. a preacher of the Christian gospel [syn: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller]
Wikipedia
Revivalist may refer to:
- An individual who is involved in a movement of Christian revival
- Revivalist artist - a performer dedicated to reviving a musical or cultural form from an earlier era
- Revivalism (architecture)
Usage examples of "revivalist".
The strength of Revivalist architecture lay in its capacity to overwhelm the viewer.
A room dedicated to the God of his faith, outfitted in the Revivalist style.
The famed multifaith revivalist had come from Yaty system to perform the wedding ceremony.
At the same time they had passed a tough new wiretap act and had turned out for massive Christian revivalist meetings.
His expression had the rapture of a revivalist seeing light through the parting of the clouds.
Tubb was a man of over seventy, a devoted pastor with a gift of revivalist eloquence, but not generally considered very strong in the head.
But of a heritage that may expand gradually, he had no conception: he hoped to come to Culture suddenly, much as the Revivalist hopes to come to Jesus.
Wahhabi Revivalists and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Israel and a half-dozen other splinter groups with various causes.
Their faces were upturned, as if fixed on a preacher at the farther end of the room, and wore that expression of rapt, painful interest that is sometimes seen on the faces of a congregation of revivalists before the smouldering excitement bursts into flame.
True, there was still enormous popularity for the old-time religious revivalists, and Billy Graham commanded the obedience of millions, but now there were small swift currents against the mainstream.
Wahhabi Revivalists and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Israel and a half-dozen other splinter groups with various causes.
Their faces were upturned, as if fixed on a preacher at the farther end of the room, and wore that expression of rapt, painful interest that is sometimes seen on the faces of a congregation of revivalists before the smouldering excitement bursts into flame.
The way they ignore anything that isn't Peck, like flicking past stations that don't concern them, just a split second of jazz or ballgames or revivalist ministers and they wince and move on, and settle finally on the one acceptable station that plays Mantovani.
The famed multifaith revivalist had come from Yaty system to perform the wedding ceremony.