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revolutionary
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Word definitions for revolutionary in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1774; see revolution + -ary . As a noun, from 1850 (cf revolutionist ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views" [syn: radical ] relating to or having the nature of a revolution; "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era" advocating or engaged in revolution; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revolutionary \Rev`o*lu"tion*a*ry\, n. A revolutionist. [R.] Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. --Prof. Wilson.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. 2 (context advertising English) pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Revolutionary is a fictional superhero published by Marvel Comics . He first appeared in Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1 (January 2008), and was created by Dan Slott , Christos Gage and Patrick Scherberger .
Usage examples of revolutionary.
Indeed, as the most revolutionary and uncompromising innovator, Anarchism must needs meet with the combined ignorance and venom of the world it aims to reconstruct.
The Anarchist Cookbook is not a revolutionary work in itself, just as a gun cannot shoot, but I have a sincere hope that it may stir some stagnant brain cells into action.
An anarchist is not necessarily a revolutionary, although it is more common than not that a person who has attempted to rid himself of exterior controls, for the purpose of developing his own philosophy, will find himself oppressed.
Zionists additionally saw revolutionary Marxism as an assimilationist enemy which persuaded them to ally against it with their fellow separatists of the anti-Semitic right-wing nationalist movements in Eastern Europe.
The Anglophone tradition in this century, which in almost every other respect has made a powerful and prolific contribution to revolutionary historiography, has a particularly egregious record of silent embarrassment, rather as though a dinner guest had met with an unfortunate but inexplicable accident in the college common room.
His political articles and memoranda written in the revolutionary year 1848 attracted official attention.
But an objection to this improvement came from the Macedonian Autonomists, represented by the notorious Macedonian Revolutionary Committee, which operated in both Yugoslavia and in Bulgaria.
Every successive revolutionary disturbance in Naples saw a recrudescence of brigandage down to the unification of 1860-1861, and then it was years before the Italian government rooted it out.
If the Christian Socialists have a right to their God, and monogamists to their eternal marriage, then surely in a revolutionary movement like ours, the complete revolutionists have, to say the least, an equal right to their agnosticism and their free union.
But as shall become clear, when seen in its proper context, string theory emerges as a dramatic yet natural outgrowth of the revolutionary discoveries of physics during the past hundred years.
All other methods, such as revolutionary use of bourgeoisie parliamentarism, will be of only secondary significance.
Lorry, and Miss Pross is gradually transferred to the revolutionaries.
The revolutionary organization has hitherto been simply a military provisionary power, and no definitive constitution of government has yet been established in New Granada in place of that organized by the constitution of 1858.
Free Congregations, which contributed equally to the Rationalistic and revolutionary movements.
Though they were undoubtedly a minority in the relentlessness of their revolutionary convictions, the militants were capable, on days of crisis, of mobilizing armed crowds of tens of thousands.