restorationist

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English

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Etymology

From restoration +‎ -ist.

Adjective

restorationist (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to restorationism.

Noun

restorationist (plural restorationists)

  1. A supporter of restorationism, one who seeks to restore things to the way it was.
    • 2019 November 24, Paul Rosenberg, “Fundamentalism and authoritarianism: How the party of ‘law and order’ became the party of crooks and crime”, in Salon:
      The “restorationist” constitutional narratives and interpretive theories promoted by Republican politicians and lawyers, [this] Essay suggests, serve to legitimate the party’s use of constitutional hardball.
  2. (religion) One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favour and presence of God; a Universalist.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “restorationist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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