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Revenant

//ˈɹɛvənənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Returning.

    "On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost."

Adjective
  1. 1
    coming back wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to or typical of a revenant wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who returns from a long absence.

    "They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin."

  2. 2
    someone who has returned from the dead wordnet
  3. 3
    A person or thing reborn.

    "Sometimes […] semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way."

  4. 4
    a person who returns after a lengthy absence wordnet
  5. 5
    A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.

    "For granting even that Religion were dead; that it had died, half-centuries ago, with unutterable Dubois; or emigrated lately, to Alsace, with Necklace-Cardinal Rohan; or that it now walked as goblin revenant with Bishop Talleyrand of Autun; yet does not the Shadow of Religion, the Cant of Religion, still linger?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

19th century. From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (“to return”). Compare revenue.

Etymology 2

19th century. From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (“to return”). Compare revenue.

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