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revisionist
[ri-vizh-uh-nist]
noun
an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
a reviser.
any advocate of doctrines, theories, or practices that depart from established authority or doctrine.
adjective
of or relating to revisionists or revisionism.
attempting to reevaluate and restate the past based on newly acquired standards.
Other 51Թ Forms
- antirevisionist noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of revisionist1
Example Sentences
The starkest example is the embrace of a revisionist telling of the Capitol riots that plays down the violence that Biden-era Justice Department officials labeled as domestic terrorism.
Although posing a revisionist challenge to “The Crucible,” “John Proctor” received the blessing of the Arthur Miller estate.
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.
“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.
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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