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revelationist en · NOUN

Etymology

From revelation + -ist.

Meanings

1. A person who believes in divine revelation.
2. A person who makes a revelation.
   • That John the gospel writer could have arrived at the same theological conclusions as John the Revelationist and John the epistle writer constitutes a huge (and even unreasonable) leap in theological understanding by two or three different men at about the same time. 2005, H.E. Eickleberry, Jr., “The ‘Legs’ of Revelation”, in The Character Map: An Introduction to the Introductions in Revelation, College Station, Tex.: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:
   • Such were thoſe that preſented to be inſpired with ſome divine Fury, or ſtrange Rapture, called Lymphatici, q. d. Νυμφόληπτοι, And the Enthuſiaſts, or pretended Revelationiſts. [1696?], Alethius Phylopsyches [pseudonym], “Proving by Philosophy the Separate Existence of the Soul”, in Ψυχηλογια [Psychelogia]; or Serious Thoughts on Second Thoughts. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 100:
   • However, it is melancholy to obſerve, that many of theſe Revelationiſts, with all their boaſted Intercourſe with Heaven, live upon Earth with leſs Order in their Lives, and with more Slavery to human Paſſion, than even ſome decent People, who make no Pretences to Religion at all. 1780, [Ambrose Serle], “Summer”, in A Companion for the Christian in His Field and Garden, London: […] J. Mathews, […] J. Buckland, […] and G. Keith, […], →OCLC, page 125:
   • Otherwiſe, by this plea of an unction from the Spirit, you may take upon you the function of Kings in the world, as well as of Prieſts in the Church; for the Revelationiſt joyns them both together, ſaying, He hath made us Kings and Prieſts. 1657, Jeffry Watts, “Of the Ministery of the Church of England”, in A Scribe, Pharisee, Hypocrite; and His Letter Answered, Separates Churched, Dippers Sprinkled: […], London: […] Edward Dod, […] Thomas Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 111:
   • Athens had to climb its Mount Zion foot by foot, yard by yard, up to its top; but the Christian revelationist came down upon it from the clouds, stood upon it for a moment, and reduced it to contempt by the eloquence of an infinite contrast. 1884, Joseph Parker, “Paul’s Theistic Argument”, in Apostolic Life, as Revealed in the Acts of the Apostles, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, […], →OCLC, LXII. Prayer, page 212:

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