restorationist

English

Alternative forms

  • Restorationist

Etymology

From restoration +‎ -ist.

Adjective

restorationist (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to restorationism.

Noun

restorationist (plural restorationists)

  1. A supporter of restorationism, one who seeks to restore things to the way it was.
    • 2019 November 24, Paul Rosenberg, “Fundamentalism and authoritarianism: How the party of ‘law and order’ became the party of crooks and crime”, in Salon:
      The “restorationist” constitutional narratives and interpretive theories promoted by Republican politicians and lawyers, [this] Essay suggests, serve to legitimate the party’s use of constitutional hardball.
  2. (religion) One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favour and presence of God; a Universalist.

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