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Definition of Revenant
1. Noun. A person who returns after a lengthy absence.
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or typical of a revenant. "Revenant shrieks and groans"
3. Noun. Someone who has returned from the dead.
4. Adjective. Coming back. "A revenant ghost"
Definition of Revenant
1. Noun. Someone who returns from a long absence. ¹
2. Noun. A person or thing reborn. ¹
3. Noun. A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost. ¹
4. Adjective. (non-gloss definition Used as an adjective.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Revenant
1. one that returns [n -S] - See also: returns
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revenant
Literary usage of Revenant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"UN revenant i HE who first gave to Martinique its poetical name, "Le Pays des
revenants," thought of his wonderful island only as "The Country of ..."
2. Law and Lawyers in Literature by Irving Browne (1882)
"... revenant," a paper published in Blackwood for April, 1827, purporting to be
the relation of one who had been hanged and was still alive. ..."
3. Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn (1890)
"UN revenant. i. HE who first gave to Martinique its poetical name, Le Pays de
revenants, thought of his wonderful island only as " The Country of ..."
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