Revenant vs Reborn - What's the difference?
revenant | reborn |
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:
revived or regenerated, especially emotionally or spiritually
reincarnated
English adjectives commonly used as postmodifiers
As adjectives the difference between revenant and reborn
is that revenant is Used as an adjective.reborn is revived or regenerated, especially emotionally or spiritually.As a noun revenant
is someone who returns from a long absence.revenant
English
(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 The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant , who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him: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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(en adjective)- On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.