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Revolutionary

adjective

Markedly new or introducing radical change. Synonym: radical. "Radical political views"

Of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn. Synonym: rotatory.

Relating to or having the nature of a revolution. "The Revolutionary era"

Advocating or engaged in revolution. "A revolutionary junta"

noun

A radical supporter of political or social revolution. Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter.

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"Revolutionary" Quotes from Famous Books

... inhabitants; the few oppressed the many; brave men were harried by cowards; the weak compelled the strong. Here were sufficient reasons. Since any armed movement against an established Government can be justified only by success, strength is an important revolutionary virtue. It was a virtue that the Arabs might boast. They were indeed far stronger than they, their persecutors, or the outside world had yet learned. All were soon ...

— The River War • Winston S. Churchill

... Meeting-House is not to be passed without mention. It is among the most aged survivals of pre-revolutionary days. Neither its architecture not its age, however, is its chief warrant for our notice. The absurd number of windows in this battered old structure is what strikes the passer-by. The church was erected by subscription, and these closely set large windows are due to Henry Sherburne, ...

— An Old Town By The Sea • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... Sisto to the island of Saint Bartholomew, and which Gibbon designates as a 'quarter of the city inhabited only by mechanics and Jews.' The mechanics were chiefly tanners, who have always been unquiet and revolutionary folk, but at least one exception to the general statement must be made, since it was here that the Cenci had built themselves a fortified palace on the foundations of a part of the Theatre of Balbus, between ...

— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford

... can be produced without much trouble or expense. The scene is taken from a historical incident that occurred during the revolutionary war. At the close of one of the hard-fought battles between the Americans and British, an American officer, having fought long and well, was obliged to seek safety in flight, hotly pursued by a company of British soldiers, led on by their captain. He ...

— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head

... of the bags. Somehow I couldn't get the fellow out of my head, and the very next time I had to go to Paris on service I spoke about him to that friend of mine in the Paris police. My friend said: 'From what you tell me I think you must mean a rather well-known hanger-on and emissary of the Revolutionary Red Committee. He says he is an Englishman by birth. We have an idea that he has been for a good few years now a secret agent of one of the foreign Embassies in London.' This woke up my memory completely. ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

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