[
UK
/ɹˈɛvənənt/
]
NOUN
- someone who has returned from the dead
- a person who returns after a lengthy absence
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to or typical of a revenant
revenant shrieks and groans -
coming back
a revenant ghost
How To Use revenant In A Sentence
- The principal themes of Holland's fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism.
- Crush two cacodemons and proceed downstairs to face more soldiers and a revenant.
- John - That's basically just a restatement in other words of what Revenant said! It might be in bad taste... but the Washington Post is talking about it so....
- Michael Burkard's latest book - full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets - is similarly lingering and resonant.
- The scent of blood cloyed as revenants mindlessly cleaned up the matching body. Kiss of a Demon King
- It may not be too great a flight of imagination to conceive our noble 'revenant' not forgetful of the great troubles of his own day, and anxious to know how often London had been burned down since his time, and how often the plague had carried off its thousands. Lectures and Essays
- Few aspects of modern life go untouched: labor laws are in effect to prevent slave labor abuse of the undead, for whom the official, politically correct term is a "revenant". American Zombie (2008): B
- But maybe we can understand Bloom's florin as a fictional revenant if not an historical precedent.
- On the other hand, revenants genuinely accepted as the spirits of the dead also appeared.
- Loved the use of the word revenant, haven't seen it used so perfectly before. Pretty dumb things