Remnant vs Revenant - What's the difference?
remnant | revenant |
The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
(archaic) Remaining; still left.
* Fuller
* Prior
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:
* 1895 August 31, Daily News'' 4/7, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
* 2008 , Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature , Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-386-1,
A person or thing reborn.
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 184:
A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
* {{quote-book, 1969, , edition=2008 ed.
, passage=Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.}}
* 1988 , (Salman Rushdie), (The Satanic Verses) , Random House (2008), page 134:
As nouns the difference between remnant and revenant
is that remnant is the small portion remaining of a larger thing or group while revenant is someone who returns from a long absence.As adjectives the difference between remnant and revenant
is that remnant is (archaic) remaining; still left while revenant is .remnant
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Alternative forms
* remnaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Usually not enough to make an entire project by itself, remnants of several fabrics can be used to make quilts.
Synonyms
* (Small remaining portion) relic, residue, remainder * (Unsold end of piece goods) remains * the'' rest ''ofDerived terms
* nova remnant * supernova remnantAdjective
(-)- Because of the remnant dregs of his disease.
- And quiet dedicate her remnant life / To the just duties of an humble wife.
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(wikipedia revenant)Noun
(en noun)- They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
- The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
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- 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 The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant , who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him:
- Sometimes semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
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Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.