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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" Antonym: counterrevolutionary.

noun

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

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"Revolutionary" Quotes from Famous Books

... unjust to those below it, in whom, in spite of much vice and more ignorance, of poverty and degradation, the elements of evil do not exist in the degree and with the virulence that spawned that hideous mob of murderers who became at last the only government of revolutionary France. The antecedent causes have not existed here for such results; and it is an insult to the whole English people ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble

... convention. At this meeting it was voted that the people should arm themselves. The convention met with delegates present from nearly ninety towns. The movement against the ministerial scheme had already become revolutionary. ...

— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath

... contexture of human life, and on Him that moulds it all to His own perfect purposes. Let us bring the highest and largest principles to bear on the smallest events and circumstances, for you can never tell which of these is going to turn out a revolutionary and formative influence in your life. And if the highest Christian principle is not brought to bear upon the trifles, depend upon it, it will never be brought to bear upon the mighty things. The most part of every life is made up of trifles, and unless these are ruled ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... she do it? The Russian students do it. Women should be as free as men. I'm a fool. I'm so full of your bourgeois morality that I let myself be shocked by the application of my own revolutionary principles. If she likes the man why shouldnt she tell ...

— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw

... are to be regarded as revolutionary in their character and tendency, and subversive of the supremacy of the laws and of the integrity of the Union. The result of each is the same, since a State in which, by an usurpation of power, the constitutional authority of the Federal Government is openly defied and set aside ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, - Vol. 2, Part 3, Andrew Jackson, 1st term • Edited by James D. Richardson

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