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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

... his words sound revolutionary. And, in fact, his mood was revolutionary. He was puzzled at his own change of attitude. His sky had cleared of black clouds; the air was no longer heavy and oppressive. He wanted to work; he felt that by working he could accomplish something, ...

— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips

... might be considered libelous. But from whatever cause, from lack of heart or lack of faith, they have no real inspiration. The literature of Europe has had but little influence on the Celt in this isle. Its philosophies and revolutionary ideas have stayed their waves at his coast: they had no message of interpretation for him, no potent electric thought to light up the mystery of his nature. For the mystery of the Celt is the mystery of Amergin the Druid. All nature speaks ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

... upon no faces more intelligently upturned than those of the young women for whom Bach and Beethoven only repeated, in a myriad forms, the idea that was always with them. Symphonies and fugues only stimulated their convictions, excited their revolutionary passion, led their imagination further in the direction in which it was always pressing. It lifted them to immeasurable heights; and as they sat looking at the great florid, sombre organ, overhanging the bronze statue of Beethoven, they felt that this was the only ...

— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James

... Gloria's settlement work was not all impersonal, for he made no secret of his worry over Gloria's evident admiration for Dru. Strawn saw in Philip a masterly man with a prodigious intellect, bent upon accomplishing a revolutionary adjustment of society, and he knew that nothing would deter him from his purpose. The magnitude of the task and the uncertainties of success made him fear that Gloria might become one of the many unhappy ...

— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House

... of their great underground struggle against what you term society. It was only in the actual contemporary volume itself, the curiosity titled U.S.A. Confidential by one Lait and one Mortimer, that I had descried that, throughout the world, this great revolutionary organization flexed its tentacles, the plexus within a short distance of where I now stood, battling courageously. With me to help them, what heights might we not attain! Kwel ...

— The Day of the Boomer Dukes • Frederik Pohl

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