revolutioneer

plural revolutioneers

1. One who revolts or who does something revolutionary; revolutionist.

   Skirmishers from Baía marched on to help the revolutioneers.

   1939, History of Brazil, page 26

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   In any country, whenever you secretly participate or openly assist, by whatever means, the revolt against the existing social system, you are a revolutioneer, an outlaw, and the State punishes you severely.

   1948, Trans-Atlantic, from Office of Labor Advisors - Volumes 1-5, page 3

   Thorstein Veblen, who hated businessmen per se, and whose writings influenced the New Deal revolutioneers, gave "C grades to all his pupils at Columbia University.

   1952, George Francis Taubeneck, Peace and progress: how to be happy despite the politicians, page 27

   French revolutioneers wore cheap pants with coloured stripes, so they called themselves Sans Culotte because they looked more like parading in pyjamas.

   1966, Vital Angel, Of heaven on earth, page 234

present singular third person revolutioneers · participle present revolutioneering · participle past revolutioneered · past revolutioneered

1. To revolt against.

   A good word, well applied and highly geared, Has oft worlds friendly revolutioneered.

   1956, Jacob Hugo Weinschenk, The Poet and the Vineyards, page 68

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   Now magots with me, have an Irrisistible, Irritating, repulsive power, and to see Two armies of those Larvas Issuing from Two opposite parts of a cheese, so much revolutionise my stomack (particularly when at sea) that, that same stomack revolutioneers again them.

   2011, John James Audubon, Daniel Patterson, Patricio J. Serrano, John James Audubon's Journal Of 1826, page 47

   Heller here also criticises the Nation-State, which we do not need. Instead, we need to revolutioneer the institutions that create and serve equity and well-being.

   2019, E Değirmenci, “A Critique of The Limits of Growth from Social Ecology Perspective”, in Federico Venturini, Emet Degirmenci, Inés Morales, editors, Social Ecology and the Right to the City