revisionism
English
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Etymology
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[edit]revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)
- (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[1]:
- 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[2]:
- 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.
- (Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
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[edit]advocacy of a revision of some view
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form of Marxism
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Swedish
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Declension
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| singular | indefinite | revisionism | revisionisms |
| definite | revisionismen | revisionismens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
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