revenant
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From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (“to return”). Compare revenue.
Pronunciation
Noun
revenant (plural revenants)
- Someone who returns from a long absence.
- 1886, Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew viii, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
- They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
- 1895 August 31, Daily News 4/7, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
- The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
- 2008, Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature, Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-386-1, page 91:
- From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant, who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him: […]
- 1886, Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew viii, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
- A person or thing reborn.
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, page 184:
- Sometimes […] semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, page 184:
- A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
- 1969 Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah[1], edition 2008 ed., ISBN 0441015611, page 19:
- Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.
- 1969 Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah[1], edition 2008 ed., ISBN 0441015611, page 19:
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:ghost
French
Verb
revenant
- Present participle of revenir.
Noun
revenant m. (plural revenants)
- A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
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