Noun

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(archaic) A corpse or dead body.

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, year=1983 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Poul Anderson , title=Time Patrolman , chapter= , url= , genre=Sci-Fi , publisher= , isbn=9780812530766 , page= , passage=She saw him again that eventide, but then he was a reddened lich . }}

(fantasy, roleplay) A reanimated corpse or undead being.

*1974 , (Karl Edward Wagner), ‘Sticks’:

*:It was a lich ’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.

Noun

(en noun)

Someone who returns from a long absence.

* 1886 , Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew'' viii, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:

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

* 1895 August 31, Daily News'' 4/7, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:

The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.

* 2008 , Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature , Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-386-1, page 91:

From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant , who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him:

A person or thing reborn.

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 184:

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

A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.

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, passage=Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.}}