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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

... influence upon his literary fame. His works were reprinted in America, and translated into French, and published at Geneva and Basle, whence they were surreptitiously introduced into France. The Whigs, who had become very factious, and nearly revolutionary, during the American war, suddenly became proud of their countryman, whom a new world hailed as a deliverer, and Paris declared to be a great poet and an illustrious philosopher. His writings became fashionable, especially among ...

— Venetia • Benjamin Disraeli

... his work in the East. He was returning at the head of a body of veterans devoted to him; and his diplomacy won over half Italy to his side. The struggle with the revolutionary government was not greatly prolonged, and it ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... The echoes of Revolutionary cannon hardly died away before the eagle-guided Republic began to follow the star of empire to ...

— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage

... year symptoms of the infection of part of the British public with revolutionary principles began to be evident, and the government was showing signs of alarm. The Whig opposition was clamoring for internal reform, and Burns sided more and more definitely with it, and was rash enough to subscribe for a Reform paper called The Gazetteer, an ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... had been unable to give that protection to the subjects of foreign nations which she would have liked to give, and some of her revolutionary leaders had forced loans from them. Under pretence of protecting their citizens, these nations seized upon Mexico as a foothold for establishing a European monarchy upon our continent, thus threatening our peace at home. I, myself, regarded ...

— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant

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