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revisionist

[ ri-vizh-uh-nist ]

noun

  1. an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
  2. a reviser.
  3. any advocate of doctrines, theories, or practices that depart from established authority or doctrine.


adjective

  1. of or relating to revisionists or revisionism.
  2. attempting to reevaluate and restate the past based on newly acquired standards.
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Other Word Forms

  • t··sDz· noun adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of revisionist1

First recorded in 1860–65; revision + -ist
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One episode opens with a black-and-white low-budget revisionist movie western — titled “The Long Road Home,” after this series’ own theme — in which Harrison winds up as an extra.

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“By preserving this information, we are supporting the public to stay informed and to resist the revisionist history and gaslighting that we observed during the first Trump administration,” Gehrke said.

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The Washington Post said she “embodied the Quiet Storm a full decade before it became a successful radio format” and NPR credited her with being one of the “prime revisionists of the American songbook.”

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Such revisionist history is not uncommon for U.S. presidents.

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All of these characters — even the more objectively callous ones like Father, a retired energy industry magnate writing a revisionist biography to absolve his culpability — teem with empathy.

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