Meaning of revenant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who returns from a long absence.
2. A person or thing reborn.
3. A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.

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Examples

“They would not visit⟳ this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.”

“The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look⟳ much as they did.., in outward aspect.”

“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 The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant, who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him: […]”

“Sometimes […] semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.”

“For granting even that Religion were dead; that it had died, half-centuries ago, with unutterable Dubois; or emigrated lately, to Alsace, with Necklace-Cardinal Rohan; or that it now walked as goblin revenant with Bishop Talleyrand of Autun; yet does not the Shadow of Religion, the Cant of Religion, still linger?”

“Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.”

“And to a revenant who had lived in body after body, died death after death, evanescence could seem like⟳ a dream⟳ of peace. But the chimaera could ill afford⟳ to let⟳ soldiers go.”

“If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants—not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed the living by drinking their blood or, less disagreeably, stirring up a ruckus in their homes.”

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