revenant

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revenant englannista suomeksi

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.

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A person or thing reborn.
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A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
(RQ:Carlyle French Revolution)
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Returning.
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(quote-av)which, in turn, led to the first U.S. vessel to be lost that day, as an Avenger touched down near the destroyer USS ''Porter'', which, shortly thereafter, took a torpedo hit, quite possibly from the Avenger's weapon deciding that, ''well'', water immersion must surely mean that it should activate. USS ''Shaw'', the revenant survivor of Pearl Harbor, was then forced to rescue the surviving crew of both the ''Porter'' ''and'' the aircraft before finishing off the stricken ''Porter'' with its guns.
(present participle of)
a supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost
a person who returns after a long absence