revisionism

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English

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Etymology

From revision +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/

Noun

revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)

  1. (historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
    • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎:
      As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.
    • 2018, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in Guardian‎:
      Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here.
  2. (Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.

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Swedish

Noun

revisionism c

  1. (historiography) revisionism
  2. (Marxism, derogatory) revisionism

Declension

Declension of revisionism
nominative genitive
singular indefinite revisionism revisionisms
definite revisionismen revisionismens
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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