revolutionary
/ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/ adjective B2- Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution · revolutionary war· revolutionary measures
- Of or pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing a standing mindset · a revolutionary new tool
- Of or pertaining to something that revolves.
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Few have passed through this revolutionary period, in the midst of which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood to soil the uniform of the soldier, or the gown of the magistrate.
Observe,” said Villefort, smiling, “I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.
“Do you know, Villefort, that you are talking in a most dreadfully revolutionary strain?
Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
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