revolutionist

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During this time, Saklatvala, who was a college student, worked closely with Waldemar Haffkine, a Russian scientist who had to flee his country because of his revolutionist, anti-tsarist politics.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2024

Here, I’m out there being a revolutionist for everybody else.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2019

I am not a revolutionist, but I do hold the deaths of every soldier as they fought for the freedoms in the constitution dear. globalgamble JJ_Bronco It sounds like you are doing the same thing.

From Time • Dec. 21, 2012

An obituary in The New York Times described her as “an incorrigible revolutionist to the end.”

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2012

There, too, Richard Wagner, a revolutionist, wanted by the Dresden police, came in 1849—from May 19th to 24th—disguised, carrying a forged passport, poor, miserable.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James