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revenant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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revenant shrieks and groans.
Examples of revenant
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The sagas tell of drastic precautions being taken after a revenant had appeared.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The dead person could then visit the bereaved as a revenant or draugr.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It will probably limp along for another season or two, a reality-show revenant, before giving up the ghost.
From the time.com
Then like some 70's revenant Skinner did a typical witless rant which the labour MPs cheered to the rafters.
From the guardian.co.uk
The revenant shapes of long-dead Japanese and Germans are allowed a pitiless flicker before their extinction.
From the theatlantic.com
This story, first published in the Pictorial Review in 1925, has a fabulous sense of place and is a revenant story with a twist.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cultural practices often arose that were intended to prevent a recently deceased loved one from turning into an undead revenant.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Last week, a revenant from oblivion, he stepped off a bus in Manhattan, free on parole after serving 17 years and nine months in federal prisons.
From the time.com
It's sort of a revenant, a specter that haunts the English language whenever appeals for making the rich pay more are heard in the land.
From the npr.org
- A person who returns after a lengthy absence
- Of or relating to or typical of a revenant; "revenant shrieks and groans"
- Someone who has returned from the dead
- Recurring: coming back; "a revenant ghost"
- Revenant is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Doom (typeset as DOOM in official documents) is a landmark 1993 first-person shooter video game by id Software. ...
- In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the revenant is a type of fictional monster for player characters to encounter.
- In fantasy fiction, the term revenant usually means a sentient creature whose desire to fulfill a special goal allows it to return from the grave as a creature vaguely resembling an intelligent zombie. ...
- A revenant is a visible ghost or animated corpse that was believed to return from the grave to terrorize the living. The word "revenant" is derived from the Latin word, revenans, "returning", from the verb "revenire"; in French, "revenant" means "returning".
