Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being revolutionary.
It also demonstrates the innovativeness and revolutionariness of Mallarme's approach which is here being put to work by Derrida.
2010, Jones Irwin, Derrida and the Writing of the Body, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 552 more examples
His environment and mode of life may have aligned him with the old order politically; but none can deny the revolutionariness of his method, of his criticism, the boldness of his rejections.
1958, Christopher Hill, Puritanism & Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century, Pimlico, published 2001, →ISBNThe revolutionariness of St. Francis's individualistic approach is especially evident in the historical context within which it developed.
2012, Ivana Zagorac, “St. Francis of Assisi: Bioethics in European Middle Ages”, in Amir Muzur, Hans-Martin Sass, editors, Fritz Jahr and the Foundations of Global Bioethics: The Future of Integrative Bioethics, Lit, →ISBN, page 74Synonyms: revolutionarity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being revolutionary.
Origin
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