All 11 Uses of
revolution
in
Anna Karenina
- He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc., etc. He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.†
Part 1revolutionary = related to or causing dramatic change; of a supporter of the change
- He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc., etc. He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.†
Part 1
- He had made up his mind to revolutionize his whole system.†
Part 3revolutionize = create dramatic changestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" in revolutionize means to make. This is the same pattern you see in words like alphabetize, legalize, and vocalize.
- Alexey Alexandrovitch, with a following of those who saw the danger of so revolutionary an attitude to official documents, persisted in upholding the statements obtained by the revising commission.†
Part 4 *revolutionary = related to or causing dramatic change; of a supporter of the change
- He considered a revolution in economic conditions nonsense.†
Part 1
- In order to work out the whole subject theoretically and to complete his book, which, in Levin's daydreams, was not merely to effect a revolution in political economy, but to annihilate that science entirely and to lay the foundation of a new science of the relation of the people to the soil, all that was left to do was to make a tour abroad, and to study on the spot all that had been done in the same direction, and to collect conclusive evidence that all that had been done there was not what was wanted.†
Part 3
- In short, a bloodless revolution, but a revolution of the greatest magnitude, beginning in the little circle of our district, then the province, then Russia, the whole world.†
Part 3
- In short, a bloodless revolution, but a revolution of the greatest magnitude, beginning in the little circle of our district, then the province, then Russia, the whole world.†
Part 3
- Sergey Ivanovitch explained to him the meaning and object of the proposed revolution at the elections.†
Part 6
- But still Sergey Ivanovitch had expected that on its appearance his book would be sure to make a serious impression on society, and if it did not cause a revolution in social science it would, at any rate, make a great stir in the scientific world.†
Part 8
- He wanted to say too that if public opinion were an infallible guide, then why were not revolutions and the commune as lawful as the movement in favor of the Slavonic peoples?†
Part 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(revolution as in: the computer revolution) dramatic change -- sometimes violent overthrow of a government
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(2)
(revolution as in: revolution around the sun) circular movement -- sometimes referring to exactly one rotation