revisionist

English

Etymology

From revision +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɪʒənɪst/

Adjective

revisionist (comparative more revisionist, superlative most revisionist)

1. Of or pertaining to revisionism.
   • 1972, Seymour Topping, Journey Between Two Chinas‎^[1], Harper & Row, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:

     Wang interjected: "We are preparing large exhibitions of art done by workers, peasants and soldiers in cooperation with the art teachers and students. Among them is one popular work entitled 'Never Stop Struggling as Long as You Are Alive.' It is a painting depicting the story of our heroic soldiers fighting the Soviet revisionist troops when they invaded Chen Pao Island on our frontier. Yes," Wang said enthusiastically, "a new upsurge in art is taking form."

   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎^[2]:

     [I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.

Derived terms

• counter-revisionist

Related terms

• revisionary
• revisitant

 

Translations

of or pertaining to revisionism

• Belarusian: рэвізіяні́сцкі (revizijaníscki)
• Bulgarian: ревизионисти́чен (revizionistíčen)
• Catalan: revisionista
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: revisionistinen (fi)
• French: révisionniste (fr) m or f
• Galician: revisionista
• German: revisionistisch (de)
• Italian: revisionista (it)
• Portuguese: revisionista
• Romanian: revizionist (ro)
• Russian: ревизиони́стский (ru) (revizionístskij)
• Spanish: revisionista
• Swedish: revisionistisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: ревізіоні́стський (revizionístsʹkyj)

Noun

revisionist (plural revisionists)

1. A proponent of revisionism.
   • 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎^[3], Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 568:

     Later on, when he had loosened up considerably, he told an amusing story that he said took place during a Sino-Soviet border flare-up in 1969. "We had a hot line between the Soviet Union and ourselves then," he said, "but it had already become cold because the Kremlin never used it. At the time of the Chen Pao border incident, however, Kosygin picked it up and called us. When our operator answered, he said, 'This is Premier Kosygin. I would like to speak to Chairman Mao.' The operator, completely on his own, said, 'You are a revisionist, and therefore I will not connect you.' So Kosygin said, 'Well, if you will not try to reach the Chairman, will you please connect me with Prime Minister Chou.' But the operator gave the same unauthorized reply and broke the connection."

Derived terms

• antirevisionist
• counter-revisionist

Translations

proponent of revisionism

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: рэвізіяні́ст m (revizijaníst), рэвізіяні́стка f (revizijanístka)
• Bulgarian: ревизиони́ст m (revizioníst), ревизиони́стка f (revizionístka)
• Catalan: revisionista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修正主義者／修正主义者 (zh) (xiūzhèngzhǔyìzhě)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: revisionisti (fi)
• French: révisionniste (fr) m or f
• Galician: revisionista m or f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Revisionist m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: revisionista (it)
• Japanese: 歴史修正主義者 (れきししゅうせいしゅぎしゃ, rekishi shūseishugisha), リビジョニスト (ribijonisuto)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: rewizjonista m, rewizjonistka f
• Portuguese: revisionista m or f
• Romanian: revizionist (ro) m, revizionistă (ro) f
• Russian: ревизиони́ст (ru) m (revizioníst), ревизиони́стка (ru) f (revizionístka)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: revisionista m or f
• Swedish: revisionist (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ревізіоні́ст m (revizioníst), ревізіоні́стка f (revizionístka)

Anagrams

• versionitis

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Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

revisionist m or f (plural revisionisten, diminutive revisionistje n)

1. a revisionist

Derived terms

• revisionistisch

Related terms

• revisionisme