Meaning of revisionist in English:

revisionist

Pronunciation /rɪˈvɪʒənɪst/

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noun

1A supporter of a policy of revision or modification.
‘the revisionists who sought to replace it were long denied’
- ‘It has nothing whatsoever to do with celebrating the mastering of anyone else, contrary to popular revisionists' belief.’
- ‘We'll plan on fighting the revisionists all the way.’
- ‘The working-class resistance which revisionists admiringly celebrated was nonetheless doomed to romantic failure.’
- ‘A few of the revisionists were almost pro-Nazi in their outlook.’
- ‘To the revisionists, the novelty of the 'new' police was neither efficiency nor integrity.’
- ‘The revisionists in his country are in essence reactionaries, and clearly he gave them something to react against.’
- ‘The libertarian revisionists do not maintain this thesis.’
- ‘His 1956 publication was the leading inspiration to revisionists in the Labour Party.’
- ‘For both conservatives and revisionists, revolutionary violence cannot be blamed on the revolution's opponents.’
- ‘Throughout the century, revisionists were continually accused of being tools or sympathizers of the kaiser.’
1. 1.1A person with a revised attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view.
  ‘revisionists have argued that the battle was crucial’
  ‘We are a nation of historical revisionists.’
  ‘With revisionists everywhere, in a world of short memories, someone needs to be out there beating the drum.’
  ‘How do you frame the story historically without becoming a revisionist?’
  ‘Revisionists have suggested that the admiral's dying words were actually "Kismet, Hardy."’
  ‘He has few kind words for the revisionists—including the crooner's oldest son—who portrayed his father as distant and cold.’
  ‘Many of the revisionists want to replace her angel image with another female archetype, the harridan.’
  ‘The author highlights the revisionists' almost wilful ignoring of long-established archaeological and textual data.’
  ‘These fundamentalists want to be known as traditionalists, while they are actually revisionists with no historical backing or facts.’
  ‘The revisionists use the absence of evidence to bolster their claims.’
  ‘Revisionists stubbornly dismiss as fictitious most historical aspects of the Bible.’

adjective

1Advocating a policy of revision or modification.
‘in the first phase of Progressive reform, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation’
- ‘It's the most infuriating part of the novel, which indeed rises to the level of revisionist propaganda.’
- ‘He manages to avoid the revisionist, anti-establishment, overwhelmingly negative posturing.’
- ‘It preferred a revisionist policy that would appeal to a larger section of the population.’
- ‘The prevailing tendencies of our literature after independence tended toward revisionist politics.’
- ‘For all its complexity, the revisionist programme is best understood as affirming the fruitfulness of critical reflection.’
- ‘The revisionist party that has emerged has even allowed its general secretary to enter the puppet government.’
- ‘Their underlying idea is no different than that promoted by revisionist governments around the world.’
- ‘He analyses how self-loathing is essential to their revisionist belief.’
- ‘It has endorsed all of the fundamental tenets of the president's revisionist approach to foreign policy.’
- ‘One sees here yet another variant of the revisionist tactics of pitting the old against the new.’
1. 1.1Promoting a revised attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view.
  ‘he is unimpressed by the arguments of revisionist historians’
  ‘a revisionist view of the media's role in politics’
  ‘It's a sparkling presentation of the film-maker's latest attempt at revisionist history.’
  ‘It is rightly revisionist in its interpretation of things like the supposedly expressed construction of the Turbine Hall.’
  ‘It's a little bit revisionist for some people in terms of the whitewashing of this historical character.’
  ‘Her revisionist agenda is to demonstrate that the shift of the center of the art market from Paris to New York predates World War II by one war.’
  ‘Rather than attempt a revisionist reworking of the novel's themes, he has provided a reasonably straight adaptation.’
  ‘Such large-scale shows and the well-researched, revisionist art history that accompanies them have become a standard here.’
  ‘The exhibit offers a revisionist view of the state and its cultural legacy.’
  ‘Each of these is based on some subtly revisionist imagining of history that ring as falsely as Spielberg's film.’
  ‘It could be argued that the earlier, revisionist westerns act as precursors of the postmodern westerns we see today.’
  ‘Despite its revisionist delusions, it offers very little that's new to the genre as a whole.’