revolutionary spirit

collocation in English

meaningsofrevolutionaryandspirit

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revolutionary
adjective
uk
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
involved in or relating to ...
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spirit
noun
uk
/ˈspɪr.ɪt/us
/ˈspɪr.ət/
a particular way of thinking, feeling, or behaving, especially a way that is typical of a particular group of people, an activity, a time, or ...
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(Definition ofrevolutionaryandspiritfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrevolutionary spirit

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It was then that the realrevolutionaryspiritwas invoked.
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These symbolic markers of change were integrated into a meta-narrative that was linked to the people's "revolutionaryspirit" as the causal factor behind various events.
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It bore all the marks of therevolutionaryspiritof its authors.
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You are developing therevolutionaryspirit—that is the danger of the time.
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There's norevolutionaryspiritaround nowadays, just opportunism everywhere.
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He has bequeathed it to his successor arevolutionaryspiritwhich runs from one end to the other.
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As with the emergingrevolutionaryspirit, hopes and wounds from the nationalist movement were not only concentrated on the asphalt roads and railways, but also sparked through the wireless.
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That agitation, however, had begun to be replaced by what was in some way a more dangerous and morerevolutionaryspirit.
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But his revolutionary intelligence was not quite up to hisrevolutionaryspirit.
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Migrants to this area had taken with them therevolutionaryspiritof political independence.
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Its communistrevolutionaryspiritcan be noticed on the contemporary club's logo.
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To hisrevolutionaryspiritand his visionary memory we humbly offer our honor and respect.
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It is the place where a newrevolutionaryspiritfinds its instruments and collects its arms.
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Therevolutionaryspiritled to conflicts between supporters of the revolution and the old government.
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I said that the trouble is that we have not got the old-fashioned spirit or the modernrevolutionaryspirit, and that we fall between two stools.
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Many groups were undisciplined, due to both the circumstances of their formation and what they perceived asrevolutionaryspirit.
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But in spite of hisrevolutionaryspiritand reformative zeal he remains an artist, from first to last.
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The early 1920s were the era of avant-garde experiments, inspired by therevolutionaryspiritof the era.
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This would in turn bolster therevolutionaryspiritof the people, leading to the overthrow of the state.
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If we are frightened of thisrevolutionaryspiritand look upon it as something to be discouraged and damped down, we lose a great military asset in the future.
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Triggered by therevolutionaryspirit, the writers of the time were full of creative ideas and were waiting for a chance to unleash them.
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The precarious existence, the agony of somehow passing the day, and of somehow managing to survive, naturally created in him arevolutionaryspirit.
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Whether his plans for the plantation were not developing as expected, or if he was inspired by arevolutionaryspirit, is unknown.
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Contrary to therevolutionaryspiritof the time however, he called for the educated classes to reform the corrupt system of government and warned against revolution, democracy, and mob rule.
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