revisionary

English

Etymology

From revision +‎ -ary.

Adjective

revisionary (comparative more revisionary, superlative most revisionary)

  1. Having the character of a revision.
    Near-synonym: corrective
    • 2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:
      I conclude that there is good reason to suspect that adverbialist paraphrases are in fact conservative rather than revisionary.
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